The photo-sharing app has been accused of double standards over its takedown policies.
Last December, the company announced that it has 300 million users who upload more than 70 million photos and videos every day.
Attempting to enforce community standards at such a scale will no doubt inevitably result in accidental takedowns and confusion. But the frequency with which Instagram takes down photographs involving the female body and expressions of feminism has provoked controversy – and suggests a broader tension between the network and its users.
1. This photo that showed menstrual blood.
Last week photographer Rupi Kaur posted this photo of a woman lying on a bed with menstrual blood visibly leaking through her trousers and on to her bedsheet.
Shortly afterwards, Instagram removed it because it violated "community guidelines". When Kaur reuploaded the photo – part of a collection exploring societal taboos around periods – it was removed for a second time, and she began an online campaign to call out the company.
Instagram told BuzzFeed News that it has now reinstated the photo and stressed that photos of menstruation do not violate its decency policies.
But Kaur believes this incident reflects a growing problem with censorship on the network. "It's sad in this world that this is still happening," she wrote on Facebook. "I know that some communities and cultures go out of their way to shun and oppress a woman on her period. I guess Instagram is another one of them. Their patriarchy is leaking. Their misogyny is leaking. We will not be censored."
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