Instagram finally came clean about its arbitrary and often-targeted policy of banning female nipples — and it's throwing its hands up in the air and blaming someone else. That someone else? Apple.

A new Instagram account is using closeup images of nipples to test the photo-sharing app’s notoriously strict policy on female nudity. The account, @genderless_nipples, publishes user-submitted photos ...

A new account is challenging Instagram's nudity policies. Credit: justin sullivan/Getty Images Instagram's insistence on removing photos of any nipples belonging to women (and only women) is ...

Nipples, in addition to being funny and occasionally useful, serve as reminders that, despite the civilizations we’ve built and cultures we’ve created, underneath it all humans are just animals with ...

It's 2017, and the Free the Nipple Campaign is alive and well, with one genius social media account at the helm of the fight. Instagram user Genderless_Nipples is unabashedly tackling the ...

Nipples look really strange without the context of the surrounding area. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t discern the difference between male and female nipples. And I just learned a third thing ...

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has explained one of the key reasons that the company censors pictures of female nipples: Apple's App Store has strict guidelines on what kind of content is allowed, and ...

Actress Amber Heard used her “Aquaman” co-star, Jason Momoa, to make a point about Instagram’s nipple censorship policy. The 33-year-old actress had previously shared an image taken for the September ...

Instagram's insistence on removing photos of any nipples belonging to women (and only women) is well-known. One account, aligned with the #FreeTheNipple cause, is tricking the platform's strict nudity ...