Journalist Taylor Lorenz reported that the platform had restricted LGBTQIA-related hashtags for months under its so-called “sensitive content policy.”

Currently, Instagram teen accounts restrict what users can see, and the setting can only be reversed by a parent or guardian.

Teenagers were reportedly blocked from viewing posts with LGBTQ-specific hashtags as part of efforts to restrict "sensitive content."

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 has apparently been restricting LGBTQ+ content from its search and discovery pages for months now.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, is under fire for its treatment of LGBTQ+ users after journalist Taylor Lorenz revealed that the platform had restricted LGBTQ-related hashtags for months. The issue,

Meta has been censoring content labeled with LGBTQ+ hashtags on Instagram, according to journalist Taylor Lorenz.

An error in Instagram's sensitive content filter has been restricting LGBTQ+ content from those using a number of broad search terms and hashtags. Anyone with sensitive content control turned on was limited from seeing LGBTQ+ posts and videos -- including all teenagers on the platform,