Instagram Reinstates Pornhub Account After Five-Month Ban
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Pornhub is back on Instagram after the Meta-owned social network appears to have reversed its ban on the sex site.
As of Sunday (Feb. 19), Pornhub’s account on Instagram, where it has 12.9 million followers, had been reinstated. That came after Instagram in early September 2022 banned Pornhub, with a spokesperson for Meta citing the account’s repeated violations of the company’s community guidelines including its ban on sexual solicitation over the course of more than 10 years.
A month later, Instagram disabled a second account that Pornhub had established to try to circumvent the ban of its primary account.
In a statement Pornhub issued Sunday, the site said: “We are pleased that, in reinstating our Instagram account, Meta has acknowledged that Pornhub always has and will continue to respect the platform’s community guidelines.
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