{"id":750278,"date":"2017-12-20T19:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=750278"},"modified":"2017-12-20T19:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:24:03","slug":"instagram-fights-animal-abuse-with-new-alert-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=750278","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Fights Animal Abuse With New Alert System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NATASHA DALY:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Instagram is rife with photos of cute wild animals\u2014including the exotic and endangered. A picture of someone hugging a sloth or showing off a pet tiger cub is just a click away on the massively popular photo-sharing platform, which serves 800 million users.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>But starting December 4, 2017, searches for a wide range of wildlife hashtags will trigger a notification informing people of the behind-the-scenes animal abuse that makes some seemingly innocent wildlife photos possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Instagram will now deliver a pop-up message whenever someone searches or clicks on a hashtag like \u201c#slothselfie.\u201d The message reads, in part, \u201cYou are searching for a hashtag that may be associated with posts that encourage harmful behavior to animals or the environment&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Instagram will use the same process for more egregious activity, such as searches for #exoticanimalforsale and other hashtags users post to advertise the sale of live animals or animal parts&#8221;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/12\/wildlife-watch-instagram-selfie-tourism-animal-welfare-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FEATURED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEyPDi552Cw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATASHA DALY: &#8216;Instagram is rife with photos of cute wild animals\u2014including the exotic and endangered. A picture of someone hugging a sloth or showing off a pet tiger cub is just a click away on the massively popular photo-sharing platform, which serves 800 million users. But starting December 4, 2017, searches for a wide range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[32,35],"class_list":["post-750278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-welfare","tag-free-living","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750280,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750278\/revisions\/750280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/750279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}