Instagram bans all content promoting conversion therapy
Social media platform, Instagram has announced, on Friday, that any content — either pictures or videos — promoting conversion therapy will be banned. The service owned by Facebook did this in line with a move to “expand its existing policies on hate speech worldwide to include posts that advertise or promote the practice,” CNN reports.
According to the Human Rights Commission, conversion therapy, sometimes known as “reparative therapy,” is a range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
“We don’t allow attacks against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity and are updating our policies to ban the promotion of conversion therapy services,” Tara Hopkins, Instagram’s public policy director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said in a statement given to CNN.
