Instagram has lessened the ability of LGBTQ content creators to have their feeds shared, including the Bay Area Reporter.

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It wasn’t lost on us that the same week we reported how queer content creators are having their posts flagged on Instagram, we were also dinged for a newsletter we shared on the site highlighting activities ahead of the Folsom Street Fair. “Inappropriate” was the term used by Instagram, as we also found that the link couldn’t be shared for some people. Instagram, the popular social media app owned by Meta, which also owns Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp, needs to end this double standard whereby queer content is censored or removed solely because it is LGBTQ.

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Meta, cozied up to Republican President Donald Tru

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