Instagram urged to crack down on eating disorder images

Social media platform advised to follow self-harm picture ban with focus on anorexia

Images promoting potentially life-threatening eating disorders are thriving on Instagram and need to be cracked down on in the same way as graphic self-harm images, leading charities and experts have said.

The social media giant's focus on removing graphic images of self-harm did not go far enough, they said, and young people also faced being confronted with pro-anorexia images due to little policing on the site.