Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is facing backlash for its handling of LGBTQIA content on its platforms.

Journalist Taylor Lorenz first reported in her Substack publication User Mag that the platform had restricted LGBTQIA-related hashtags for months under its so-called sensitive content policy. The restrictions, which had been in place for months, were automatically applied to teen accounts, preventing them for searching hashtags like #gay, #lesbian, #trans, and #nonbinary. When teens attempted to search LGBTQIA hashtags, they encountered a blank screen accompanied by a prompt about Instagram’s content........

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