"While people overwhelmingly use DMs (direct messages) to share what they love with their friends, family or favourite creators, sextortion scammers may also use private messages to share or ask for intimate images," Meta said in a blogpost. "To help address this, we’ll soon start testing our new nudity protection feature in Instagram DMs, which blurs images detected as containing nudity and encourages people to think twice before sending nude images," it added. Meta Testing New Tools To Protect Youth From Sextortion and Other Forms of Intimate Image Abuse on Their Platforms.