Hate speech or slurs
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What triggers it
Attacks on people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religion, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, serious disease (and immigration status for the worst attacks): dehumanizing comparisons (animals, pathogens, filth), slurs, harmful stereotypes, serious insults, calls for exclusion, targeted cursing.
What Instagram says
“Content that describes or negatively targets people with slurs.”
We last checked this against Instagram's page on .
How to fix it
Mute or bleep slurs, cut dehumanizing comparisons, and make condemning or reporting intent explicit.
Good to know
Check song lyrics and quoted clips too. Allowed when the intent is clearly to condemn or report, or when a slur is used self-referentially/empoweringly. Since 2025-01-07 some allegations about gender or sexual orientation are allowed in political or religious discourse.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said, the words on screen and the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: looked at for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Sounds other than speech, such as music, aren't checked.
The same rule on Facebook and Threads
Related Instagram rules
Platforms change their rules often. This page sums up what Instagram publishes; it isn't legal advice.