We want to help you find support and take action if you need to. We worked with the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative on this list of things you can do and organisations you can contact for support and advice.

Document the post

You may need a record of the post if you decide to take further action. We recommend that you take a screenshot of the post for reporting purposes.

Report an Instagram post

You can anonymously report photos that go against our Community Standards. If someone is threatening to share things you want to keep private (e.g. messages, photos or videos), asking you to send money or asking you to do something else that you're uncomfortable with, please report their profile to us using the built-in reporting options. If you don't have an Instagram account, you can report things with the help of a friend.

After reporting a post, specially trained representatives from our Community Operations team will then review the image and remove it if it goes against our Community Guidelines. We then use photo-matching technology to help stop future attempts to share the image on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.

Unfollow or block the person who posted it

Bear in mind that these options may keep you from seeing the post, but the person who posted it and other people on Instagram may still be able to see the post unless it's removed.

We want to help you find support and take action if you need to. We worked with the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative on this list of things you can do and organisations you can contact for support and advice.

Document the post

You may need a record of the post if you decide to take further action. We recommend that you take a screenshot of the post for reporting purposes.

Report a Facebook post

Visit the Facebook Help Centre to learn how to report posts to Facebook. Sharing or threatening to share intimate images goes against our Community Standards. If someone is threatening to share things you want to keep private (e.g. messages, photos, videos), asking you to send money or asking you to do something else that you're uncomfortable with, please report this to us.

Block this person. Depending on your privacy settings, people on Facebook can see a list of your Facebook friends. Once you block someone, they no longer have access to your friend list and won't be able to start conversations with you or see things that you post on your profile.

Remember that if somebody asks you to share something you're not comfortable with you have the right to say no.