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,

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.

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