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Instagram brands Christian worship ‘harmful’

June 30, 2020 - instagram is censoring a Christian worship leader who wants to post videos of praise and worship from places where there has recently been unrest. And that doesn't meet 'community standards'? Can't wait to hear the explanation for this."

As of this writing (late Thursday night, Eastern Time, June 25), we are still awaiting explanation.

A few years ago, I repeatedly challenged Facebook for censoring some of my posts for alleged violation of community standards, ...

Will NOSTR replace Twitter and Instagram?

February 15, 2023 -

Fabian Ommar from The Organic Prepper wrote a piece about a new protocol called NOSTR, short for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays," that is described as "a decentralized network built on cryptographic keypairs that is not peer-to-peer."

The way NOSTR works is different from, say, Instagram, which uses centralized servers to control all operations. NOSTR is more of a protocol than an actual app as it allows every person who uses it to be their own ...

Instagram to “fact check” and remove memes

May 08, 2019 -

(Article by Paul Joseph Watson republished from InfoWars.com)

The social media giant, which is owned by Facebook, will use its 52 global “fact checking partners” to censor “false photos and memes on its platform,” according to Poynter.

“Instagram is taking those fact checks and applying them to the same false photos and memes on its platform,” according to the report.

Memes deemed factually incorrect will no longer appear under tabs where they can ...

Zuckerberg planning to rig 2024 elections using INSTAGRAM

July 02, 2024 -

The technocrat seeks to accomplish this using Instagram's "limit political content" function. According to the National Pulse, the platform automatically limited users' exposure to "political content" ahead of the first presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden.

"Just one day before the first general election presidential debate of 2024, social media giant Meta changed users' settings to automatically limit the ...

Facebook, Instagram ban criticism of “Zionists” as “hate speech”

July 11, 2024 -

Anyone on Facebook or Instagram who criticizes "Zionists" for "running the world or controlling the media" will be immediately banned for engaging in "hate speech," the World Jewish Congress revealed about Meta's plans, which were revealed in a blog post.

"The announcement is a much-needed advancement in our ongoing fight against online antisemitism and hatred," the group added in a statement. "By recognizing and addressing the misuse of the term 'Zionist,' Meta ...

Meta BANS Instagram accounts of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei

February 12, 2024 -

The company led by Mark Zuckerberg said it removed two of Khamenei's accounts on Feb. 8. The Iranian leader's Persian-language account had more than 5.1 million followers, while his English-language account had more than 204,000.

The Iranian leader reportedly praised Hamas' Oct. 7 attack against Israel on social media. Khamenei also reportedly backed Palestinian resistance against Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as well as the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea ...

Instagram bans BLM activist Shaun King for criticizing Israel

December 31, 2023 -

According to Facebook, another social media platform under the same Meta banner that also banned King, the decision to silence this prominent BLM voice stemmed from his "praise for designated entities."

"Designated entities," in this context, means the people living in Gaza whom King has been defending on social media. According to Meta, Facebook, and Instagram, users of the latter two social media platforms who express any kind of support for the Palestinian ...

Former Meta director says Instagram FAILED to protect teen users

November 27, 2023 -

Arturo Bejar worked on well-being for Instagram from 2019 to 2021. From 2009 to 2015, he said that he was a director of engineering for Facebook's Protect and Care team. Bejar testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law at a hearing about social media and its impact on teen mental health.

In written remarks made available before the hearing, Bejar said he is testifying because the public and parents must "understand ...

Ukrainian President Zelensky praises Neo-Nazi soldiers in Instagram post

August 28, 2022 -

The post by the Ukrainian leader featured two soldiers who were sporting neo-Nazi insignia on their uniforms. The first soldier named Mikhail wore the standard of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Schutzstaffel (SS) – a lion facing left and three crowns.

The division was also known as the 1st Galician Division, as it was comprised of predominantly Ukrainian volunteers hailing from the Galicia region – now located in southwestern Poland and western Ukraine. It ...

Big Tech knowingly profited off pedophiles who exploit children on Instagram

March 06, 2024 -

This is according to reports from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, who claim that Meta allowed subscription tools to be used for child sexual exploitation and did nothing to stop it.

Although Instagram does not permit users younger than 13 to sign up, accounts may focus on children if they are managed by an adult. The news outlets claim that Meta’s safety staff warned superiors last year that hundreds of “parent-managed minor accounts” were being ...

Facebook, Instagram, and Google censor upcoming Alex Jones documentary, Alex’s War

July 22, 2022 -

(Article by Cindy Harper republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

The documentary’s producer Alex Lee Moyer talked to UnHerd News’ Florence Reed about the censorship. She said that Google refused to allow her team to run ads to promote the film. The company ignored calls and permanently banned the producer from buying ad spaces.

A screenshot shared with UnHeard News revealed that TikTok removed the film’s trailer because it violated policies on “hateful behavior.”

Meta-owned ...

Instagram and Facebook block quote from Thomas Paine for “false information”

January 05, 2022 -

(Article by Didi Rankovic republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

Facebook’s “dumb algorithms” are most likely (or at least, hopefully) behind the decision to “fact check” and censor none other than a quote by Thomas Paine, an 18th century Anglo-American figure whose work was instrumental in inspiring the declaration of independence of the United States.

Even in the current climate of out of control online censorship, it would be a bitter pill to swallow if it turned ...

Facebook accused of spying on Instagram users – through their phone’s cameras

September 20, 2020 -

Brittany Conditi filed the lawsuit in San Francisco, N.J.'s federal court, contending that the app's use of the camera was done intentionally to collect “lucrative and valuable data on its users it would not otherwise have access to.”

The suit also mentioned that Facebook collected “valuable insights and market research” by means of “obtaining extremely private and intimate personal data on their users, including in the privacy of their own homes.” Furthermore, the ...

Instagram now labels pro-life speech “hate speech,” begins banning everything

April 11, 2019 -

Adam Ford, a Christian comic artist and founder of The Babylon Bee, a popular satire website, was recently notified by Instagram that a comic strip he shared comparing the moral outrage of slavery to the moral outrage of abortion had "been deleted" because, it didn't meet Instagram's "Community Guidelines on hate speech or symbols."

The comic in question depicted two women from an earlier era discoursing about slavery – the one defending the right to ...

Selective freedom of speech: Facebook, Instagram allow violent hate speech against Russians

March 16, 2022 -

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said: "Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we temporarily allowed forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules, such as violent speech like 'death to Russian invaders.' We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians."

The eased policy applies to most post-Soviet countries and their neighbors, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, ...

Big tech platforms Facebook and Instagram now reminding users to wear masks

July 21, 2020 -

The two social media networks will do this by sending notifications, which include a link to information from the World Health Organization (WHO) to its users.

The alert, Facebook said, will appear at the top of the “News Feed” section.

The feature, which will be rolled out to users in both the United States and the United Kingdom, will also include information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for users who are based in the U.S., and the ...

Facebook/Instagram restore old censorship regime following shooting of two Israeli embassy aides

May 29, 2025 - instagram relaxed its censorship and allowed users to post clips from my show. Almost overnight, the clips started going viral and getting millions of views.

Today all of the clipping accounts were banned and the censorship has resumed. Totally rigged system.

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) May 27, 2025I have been banned from Twitch since 2019, Youtube and Tiktok since 2020, Facebook/Instagram since 2021, and Twitter from 2021-2024.

Today I am ...

Louisiana farmer loses two-thirds of customers for criticizing “Pride Month” on Instagram

June 20, 2023 -

Ross McKnight, the owner of Backwater Foie Gras, wrote on the Meta-owned, Facebook-tied social media platform on June 3 that LGBT pride has become a serious threat to traditional family values and the families like his own that still adhere to them.

"The push to have every mainstream value and holiday represented in some way in our Louisiana ought to make no sense at all to any Louisianais or Louisianaise, unless recognized as a forward offensive by an ever-encroaching ...

Insta-BANNED: RFK Jr. campaign accounts immediately SUSPENDED by Instagram for 6 months

June 04, 2023 -

The Democratic presidential candidate took to Twitter to lament the immediate ban. Tagging the official Twitter account for the social media platform, he asked: "When we use our Team Kennedy email address to set up Instagram accounts, we get an automatic 180-day ban. Can anyone guess why that's happening?"

RFK Jr. also lamented how Instagram – owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta – hasn't reinstated his account, "which was banned years ago with more than 900,000 ...

Instagram censors scientist for posting study showing men are physically stronger than women

October 18, 2021 -

Sadly, we live in a world where discussing scientific facts – whether you’re referring to the reality that people are born either male or female from a biological standpoint or you’re discussing someone’s documented COVID-19 vaccine-related blood clots – is enough to get you censored on social media.

The platform removed his post, which contained a chart that was published in the journal Medicine & Sports as part of a peer-reviewed study entitled, Transgender Women in ...