Despite Instagram's policies against explicit content, the ABC has uncovered dozens of accounts on the platform — each with hundreds of followers — sharing images and videos of dogs being sexually exploited as well as other types of animal cruelty.
Accounts depicting “horrific” content involving bestiality and animal cruelty are being left to thrive and amass followers on Instagram.
Despite Instagram’s policies against animal cruelty and explicit content, animal activists say not enough action is being taken to ban the content.
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I expect Zuckerberg to be arrested post haste.
We live under a regime that violently forces animals to serve capital under the threat of starvation.
It’s no surprise that non-human animals are treated extra cruel.
The accounts weren’t against the rules when a random user reported them, but suddenly were when the press asked about them. How mysterious.