How to report abusive comments on Instagram
Reading Time: 2 minutesNo one should be made to feel unsafe, harassed, targeted, abused, or harmed online or off. When it’s happening on social media apps, it’s up to the platform itself to effectively tackle this.
Like most social platforms, hate speech and abusive comments plague Instagram users. Meta, which owns Instagram, claims ‘we don’t allow hate speech’ and ‘we do not tolerate’ bullying and harassment on its platforms, but if you’ve nonetheless been the recipient of abuse on these very apps, these might seem like hollow words.
So what has Instagram been doing to tackle hate speech and abuse on the platform? Between January and March 2023, the company says it took action on 5.1 million pieces of hate speech content, 95.3 percent of which Instagram says it identified before it was reported. Within the app, Instagram says it removes ‘photos or videos of hate speech or symbols,’ ‘posts with captions that encourage violence or attack anyone based on who they are,’ and ‘specific threats of physical harm, theft or vandalism.’
But sadly, people find ways around these rules. If you see a comment or post on Instagram that’s abusive, bullying, hate speech, misinformation, or appears to be inciting violence or physical harm, you can report it. Whether or not Instagram does anything with your report, or as happened to one of MediaDownloader’s reporters who reported racist comments on Instagram, simply suggests that the comments ‘didn’t go against their community guidelines,’ well, that’s another problem.
For the record, Meta defines hate speech as ‘a direct attack against people – rather than concepts or institutions – on the basis of what we call protected characteristics: race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease.’ Attacks, the platform says, include ‘violent or dehumanising speech, harmful stereotypes, statements of inferiority, expressions of contempt, disgust or dismissal, cursing and calls for exclusion or segregation. We also prohibit the use of harmful stereotypes, which we define as dehumanising comparisons that have historically been used to attack, intimidate or exclude specific groups, and that are often linked with offline violence.’
So, want to report hate speech in the comments of someone you follow? Can you see someone being harassed in the comments below one of their posts? Report it, whether it’s happening to you, someone you know, or someone you don’t know. See something, say something.
And Instagram, keep working on it.
How to report an Instagram comment
If the comment is on one of your posts, you can both report and delete it. Use the process above to report first (so it doesn’t just disappear without being flagged), and then here’s how to get rid of it:
How to delete Instagram comments (on your posts only)
If you have multiple comments to delete at once (we’re sorry you’re dealing with this), Instagram has a feature that lets you bulk delete or block, not to bulk report though.
How to bulk manage Instagram comments
Reference: https://mashable.com/article/how-to-report-abuse-comments-on-instagram
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