Instagram has today taken another brilliant step against potentially harmful social media content by announcing that they will remove all augmented reality (AR) filters that depict or promote cosmetic surgery.

The filters in question virtually change a person’s features to make it look like they have had cosmetic procedures such as face lifts, lip injections or fillers.

One of the filters, called “Fix Me”, applied lines and drawings to the faces of users similar to those a cosmetic surgeon would draw on the face before surgery. The black lines are therefore supposed to highlight “problem areas”.

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