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Instagram users are banned from posting so-called 'thinspo' pics intended to encourage eating disorders.
Instagram is the latest social network to take a stance against a frightening online wave of thinspiration posts that glamorize and encourage eating disorders.
The popular photo-sharing platfor m updated its community guidelines to ban any posts that promote or glorify self-harm, following similar recent policy changes by Tumblr and Pinterest.
While Instagram is a place where people can share their lives with others through photographs, any account found encouraging or urging users to embrace anorexia, bulimia, or other eating disorders; or to cut, harm themselves, or commit suicide will result in a disabled account without warning, the company wrote in a blog post Friday.
Furthermore, hashtags associated with self-harm like thinspiration, probulimia and proanorexia will no longer turn up search results.
Tumblr banned self-harm blogs in late February, and Pinterest followed suit with a similar policy change in March.
The changes were a response to a surge in posts and updates on social media platforms that advocated eating disorders and unhealthy weights. Photos show models with protruding ribs, stick-thin arms and bony legs, alongsi de slogans like, Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
Last week, model and TV personality Alexa Chung was attacked for appearing too skinny and unhealthy in one of her Instagram photos. Before making her account private, Chung responded to critics, saying she's not trying to be thinspo for anyone.
rmurray@nydailynews.com
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