10 February 2021, 10:31 pm EST By Instagram Now Detects Harassing Private DMs and Issues Warnings: 'Stricter Penalties' Will be Issued ( Screenshot From Pxhere Official Website ) Instagram has known to have enough of different users sending certain abusive and harassing DMs or direct messages through the platform and will now back it with a strong warning that goes to anyone who would continually do so. In a recent update on the additional steps, the platform is taking moves to reduce the abuse as it warns that it will reportedly be issuing some "stricter penalties" moving forward. Instagram disables accounts According to Instagram, the users who are found to violate the platform's rules when it comes to DMs repeatedly, they will be having their own account disabled. This is also a very severe step over the noted previous penalty. This involves actually disabling the offending user from actually sending some additional messages for a given restricted time period.