Threats or calls for violence
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What triggers it
Threats that could lead to death or serious injury, calls for violence, offers of violence-for-hire, threats with weapons, or threats tied to elections; against private people and minors even low-severity threats count.
What Instagram says
“Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)”
We last checked this against Instagram's page on .
How to fix it
Rephrase lines that sound like real threats against identifiable people.
Good to know
Hyperbole aimed at a real, named person ('I'm going to kill him') can be read literally. Clearly fictional, sports or casual non-targeted hyperbole is less risky.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's said, the words on screen and the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: not 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
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Related Instagram rules
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