Fendr removes abuse and harassment from your Instagram comments in real time — before your audience sees them, before they get amplified, before you have to deal with them.
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The hate is rarely spontaneous. It's often coordinated — organised campaigns from political actors, interest groups, or online communities who don't like your coverage and want you to stop. Comments designed not just to express displeasure but to intimidate, to exhaust, to make you think twice before the next piece.
For women journalists, there's another layer: sexist and sexually threatening comments, specifically targeted. For journalists from ethnic minority backgrounds, racial abuse is a constant companion to any piece that gains traction.
The goal is always the same — to change your behaviour, to make you spend more time managing abuse than reporting. Social media isn't optional for journalists. Shutting it down isn't a solution.
Reporting abusive content to Instagram rarely works — 70% of reported hate speech stays up. (Appeals Centre Europe, 2026) By the time anything is reviewed, the comment has already been seen, shared, and amplified.
Fendr is proactive. It acts before any of that happens — before a comment goes live, before anyone sees it, before you have to decide whether to report it or just let it go.
A hate comment left visible on your post doesn't just affect you. It signals to everyone who visits your profile that this space is unmoderated — and that more hate is welcome. Research into online behaviour consistently shows that visible hate shapes the environment and produces more of it, not less.
Removing abusive comments in real time doesn't just protect you from one comment. It changes what your comment section communicates to the thousands of people who see it.
Fendr removes abusive comments in real time — your audience never sees them. Every comment Fendr acts on is logged in your dashboard, available to review whenever you choose.
When an organised campaign targets your account, Fendr is already working before the volume gets unmanageable.
The abuse a crime correspondent faces is different from a political reporter's, which is different again from a foreign correspondent's. Fendr is built around you.
Not just explicit slurs, but intimidating and threatening language that doesn't always trigger automated systems.
Everything logged and reviewable — useful for documenting patterns, for HR or legal processes, or for safety reporting.
Recognises repeat abusers and escalating patterns, and catches them faster.
Through Meta's verified integration. Fully secure, takes minutes, and no credentials are ever shared.
Your content, your identity, the abuse you face. Fendr builds around you, not a generic filter.
24/7, automatic, in the background. You focus on the work.
“The comments section after a big story used to be something I dreaded. Now I don't even think about it.”
“It's not just the volume. It's the coordinated nature of it. Fendr handles both.”
Yes. Fendr reads the context of each comment rather than matching keywords, so it catches threats and personalised harassment that simple filters miss.
Yes — it processes comments in real time, so when a story triggers hundreds of replies at once, the abusive ones are removed automatically before they build momentum.
No. Fendr distinguishes abuse from disagreement. Genuine criticism stays visible; hate, threats, and harassment are removed.
Fendr protects Instagram today, with TikTok, X, and YouTube on the way.
Yes. Every action is logged and reviewable, and your corrections teach the system what to catch for you.
Free for 14 days. No card required. The abuse stops landing. You keep reporting.
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