Former Instagram CEO: Policing Social Media Important to the Future Kevin Systrom said it will be important for companies to address the issues of misinformation and harassment on their platforms. Russian meddling in U.S. elections and the Cambridge Analytica hack are examples of how social media companies breaches can have massive implications. "You start to realize … how important it's going to be for the future of the world that we police these things well, that we take it very seriously and put real resources against solving the problems now that you're at this scale."
Kevin Systrom, via WSJ Tech D.LIVE conference Systrom built anti-bullying features into Instagram during his tenure that allow users to turn off comments on their posts. The former Instagram CEO believes the next level of fake content will be "deepfakes." These are believable, doctored videos that are starting to make their way on social media. Kevin Systrom left his role leading Instagram in September 2018.