Instagram

Report March 2026

Submitted
Commitment 18
Relevant Signatories commit to minimise the risks of viral propagation of Disinformation by adopting safe design practices as they develop their systems, policies, and features.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 18.2 Measure 18.3
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
Yes
If yes, list these implementation measures here
There have been no significant updates since the last submitted report.
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
No
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
N/A
Measure 18.2
Relevant Signatories will develop and enforce publicly documented, proportionate policies to limit the spread of harmful false or misleading information (as depends on the service, such as prohibiting, downranking, or not recommending harmful false or misleading information, adapted to the severity of the impacts and with due regard to freedom of expression and information); and take action on webpages or actors that persistently violate these policies.
Instagram
QRE 18.2.1
Relevant Signatories will report on the policies or terms of service that are relevant to Measure 18.2 and on their approach towards persistent violations of these policies.
As mentioned in our baseline report, our policies and approach to tackle misinformation are published in our Transparency Centre: 

These include specific actions taken against actors that repeatedly violate our policies. We take action against accounts that repeatedly share or publish content that is rated False or Altered, near-identical to what fact-checkers have debunked as False or Altered, and content we enforce against under our policy on vaccine misinformation. If accounts repeatedly share such content they will see their distribution reduced. 

For most violations, the user’s first strike will result in a warning with no further restrictions. If Meta removes additional posts that go against the Community Standards in the future, we'll apply additional strikes to the account, and the user may lose access to some features for longer periods of time.

If content that users have posted goes against our more severe policies, such as our policy on dangerous individuals and organisations or adult sexual exploitation, the user may receive additional, longer restrictions from certain features.

For most violations, if the user continues to post content that goes against the Community Standards after repeated warnings and restrictions, we will disable the account.

These policies apply across all EU Member States.


SLI 18.2.1
Relevant Signatories will report on actions taken in response to violations of policies relevant to Measure 18.2, at the Member State level. The metrics shall include: Total number of violations and Meaningful metrics to measure the impact of these actions (such as their impact on the visibility of or the engagement with content that was actioned upon).
Number of unique contents that were removed from Instagram for violating our harmful health misinformation or inauthentic behavior or voter or census interference policies in EEA  Member State countries from 01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025.

Country determined by inferred user (responsible for the content) location.
Number of unique contents that were removed from Instagram for violating our harmful health misinformation or inauthentic behavior or voter or census interference policies in EEA Member State countries from 01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025. Country determined by inferred user (responsible for the content) location. Number of unique contents that were demoted from Instagram for likely misinformation in EEA Member State countries from 01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025. Country determined by inferred user (responsible for the content) location. Metric 2: indicating the impact of the action taken Metric 3: indicating the impact of the action taken
Austria Over 2,900 Over 510 0 0
Belgium Over 4,700 Over 780 0 0
Bulgaria Over 1,300 Over 280 0 0
Croatia Over 2,900 Over 290 0 0
Cyprus Over 2,000 Over 210 0 0
Czech Republic Over 2,100 Over 390 0 0
Denmark Over 2,500 Over 440 0 0
Estonia Over 290 Less than 100 0 0
Finland Over 1,300 Over 260 0 0
France Over 18,000 Over 3,600 0 0
Germany Over 30,000 Over 5,500 0 0
Greece Over 5,000 Over 1,100 0 0
Hungary Over 740 Over 230 0 0
Ireland Over 2,400 Over 490 0 0
Italy Over 23,000 Over 10,000 0 0
Latvia Over 250 Over 100 0 0
Lithuania Over 2,000 Less than 100 0 0
Luxembourg Over 1,000 Less than 100 0 0
Malta Over 160 Less than 100 0 0
Netherlands Over 8,300 Over 1,500 0 0
Poland Over 6,600 Over 1,200 0 0
Portugal Over 6,400 Over 1,700 0 0
Romania Over 4,000 Over 640 0 0
Slovakia Over 1,100 Over 220 0 0
Slovenia Over 350 Less than 100 0 0
Spain Over 24,000 Over 6,500 0 0
Sweden Over 6,100 Over 1,100 0 0
Iceland Over 120 Less than 100 0 0
Liechtenstein Less than 100 Less than 100 0 0
Norway Over 1,500 Over 340 0 0