Govt to ban social media influencers for anti-national content, flags accounts inciting violence post-Pahalgam attack The Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT warns that certain social media ... There is no evidence to support the claim that the central government has banned the Instagram application in India. A screenshot circulating on social media suggests a news report by First India News, claiming that the central government Instagram application in India, is going viral. Instagram has been compliant with the guidelines of the Indian government and has not faced any imminent risk of being banned in India. There have been reports of an Instagram ban in India, but it is important to fact-check and verify the information before drawing any conclusions. This means that the news of Instagram being banned in India is fake, and the app will continue to function like before. Instagram has been stringent in following the guidelines of the Indian government, and till now has not been facing any threat of a ban in India.