Fendr protects your journalists from hate, threats, and coordinated abuse on Instagram — no login handover required, with a full audit trail kept for every comment.
Reporters who cover politics, crime, health, social issues, and identity face coordinated harassment campaigns designed to intimidate them into silence, change their coverage, or drive them off the platforms where journalism increasingly lives. It's a welfare issue, a press freedom issue, and increasingly a legal one — employers have duty of care obligations that extend to the working conditions their employees experience online.
Women journalists face a particular intensity of abuse — sexist, sexually threatening, and designed to exploit the fact that they're visible. Journalists from ethnic minority backgrounds face racial abuse tied to their coverage and their identity. And it doesn't stay in comments — it escalates to DMs, to physical locations, to attempts to contact employers and sources.
The standard response — ask journalists to report abuse and wait for platforms to act — doesn't work. 70% of reported hate speech stays up. (Appeals Centre Europe, 2026) And it puts the burden of protection on the person being targeted.
Each journalist connects their own Instagram through Meta's verified integration. Their login stays theirs. Their dashboard stays theirs. The organisation provides the protection — each journalist controls what they see and what they choose to share.
One organisational account covers your full journalism team. The organisation sees who is protected. Each journalist controls the rest.
Journalists connect their own accounts. The employment relationship doesn't require anyone to give up personal account access.
A crime correspondent faces different abuse from a political editor. Each journalist's protection is calibrated to their beat, identity, and risk profile.
Hate comments are removed before they go live. Journalists don't have to see them. The public doesn't see them.
Every action logged and reviewable — useful for welfare reviews, HR processes, escalation to police or legal teams, or demonstrating duty of care to regulators.
Fendr acts before abuse is seen, before it's reported, before the journalist has to make the call on whether something crosses a line.
They require login access that no journalist should provide.
They're not built around the specific, identity-based harassment reporters face.
They treat all content the same rather than understanding targeted political or ideological campaigns.
They were designed for managing organisational brand channels, not protecting individuals on personal accounts.
Fendr is built the other way around: individual-first, identity-aware, no login required, journalist-specific.
Covers your editorial team.
Through Meta's verified integration. Logins stay with the journalist.
Their beat, their identity, the specific abuse they face.
Each has their own private dashboard. What's moderated is theirs to review, and theirs to share if they choose to escalate.
24/7, in the background. Journalists are protected without it adding to their workload.
No. Each journalist connects their own account through Meta's verified integration and keeps their login and their private dashboard.
Yes. Every action is logged and reviewable, which supports welfare reviews, HR processes, and demonstrating duty of care to regulators.
The journalist. The organisation sees who is protected; what's moderated is the journalist's to review and to share only if they choose to escalate.
Instagram today, with TikTok, X, and YouTube on the way.
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