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LGBTQ terms on Instagram were mistakenly hidden from teen users. The restrictions were reported by User Mag, which found that teen users searching for content related to dozens of hashtags including ...

Journalist Taylor Lorenz reported that the platform had restricted LGBTQIA-related hashtags for months under its so-called “sensitive content policy.” Meta, the parent company of Instagram and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instagram users worldwide have reported an alarming increase in violent and graphic content appearing in their Reels feed. Many ...

In spite of its many controversies, Meta and its platforms have generally been good about keeping the most graphic and explicit content away from their users. In late February, though, some users got ...

If you’re a teen and had any sort of hunch that certain topics were being blocked from your Instagram feed, you were probably onto something. In a new report for User Mag, Taylor Lorenz writes that ...

Meta’s Instagram has been blocking LGBTQ-related hashtags for months, according to reporting by User Mag. This was done under the company’s “sensitive content” policy as an attempt to restrict ...

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, has been accused of restricting LGBTQ-specific content on its platforms. According to journalist Taylor Lorenz, reporting on her User Mag ...

Meta says it has fixed the error that resulted in restricting LGBTQ+ content in teens' search and explore pages, but it's unclear how long the bug was active. Katelyn ...

Instagram recently blocked teen users from viewing the results for numerous LGBTQ+ terms by accident, according to a spokesperson for Meta, the platform's parent company. The restrictions were ...