Instagram Refuses to Pull Down Milo Post Praising Mail Bombs
The company said that the item didn’t violate their ‘Community Guidelines.’
Will Sommer
10.25.18 3:09 PM ET
Instagram said it would not remove a post from right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos praising the recent mail bombs sent to prominent Democratic officials, even after the post was reported as hate speech.
On Thursday afternoon, Yiannopoulos posted a picture of himself with a caption that regretted that the bombs didn’t actually detonate. Yiannopoulos also told his 386,000 followers that he was upset that no mail bomb was sent to this publication, The Daily Beast.
“Just catching up with news of all these pipe bombs,” Yiannopoulos wrote. “Disgusting and sad (that they didn’t go off, and the daily beast didn’t get one).”
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Some Yiannopoulos supporters on Instagram worried that the post would get Yiannopoulos banned from Instagram. But Instagram declined to take the post down after it was reported to them by this reporter. The company said it “does not violate our Community Guidelines.”
Instagram did not respond to requests for further comment. Yiannopoulos made a similar post on Facebook, Instagram’s parent company. That post also remains up and Facebook similarly did not respond for request for comment.
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