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ClaimDesk

Route a stolen Reel or a fake account to the one right Meta form.

Four questions, one correct Meta form — plus a timestamped evidence pack built in your browser. Information about a process, not legal advice.

No login · no API keyPublic links onlyFree

Takedown Desk

Four questions. Instagram runs several report routes and they are not interchangeable — the wrong one is closed rather than forwarded, which costs days you may not have.

  1. 1. What happened?
  2. 2. Who are you?
  3. 3. Where is it?
  4. 4. Are you in the EU?

If Instagram removed YOUR post

If Instagram removed something of yours after a copyright complaint, US law gives you a way to push back: a DMCA counter-notice. Instagram's own notice to you names the route.

ClaimDesk will not write one for you, and that is deliberate. A counter-notice is a sworn statement. It hands your full legal name, postal address and phone number to the person who complained about you, and it consents to the jurisdiction of a federal court where you live or where Instagram is. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), a material misrepresentation in one can make you liable for the other side's damages and legal costs.

That is a decision to make with a lawyer, not with a web form that has never met you. What we can do is tell you what it is, what it costs you, and that a counter-notice usually restores the post in 10 to 14 business days unless the complainant sues first — which is guidance drawn from the statute's own timetable, not a promise about your case.

Read the Rights Center for what shotMod itself hosts (nothing) and how to reach us.

ClaimDesk reads only the public post you paste — the same data Instagram already serves anyone with the link. The evidence pack, the PDF, the comparison and the watch list are all built in your browser and never uploaded, a screenshot you drop in never leaves your device, and nothing here runs on a timer. It is information about a process, not legal advice.

ClaimDesk — questions, answered

Someone stole my Reel and reposted it. What do I do?

Report it to Instagram, because Instagram is the only party that can remove the post. ClaimDesk asks four questions and points you at the one live-checked form for your case, lists what to have ready, and builds a timestamped evidence pack from the public link.

How do I report a fake Instagram account of me?

Use Instagram's impersonation form, which its own help article says works even if you do not have an Instagram account. The URL most search results hand out for it is dead and bounces to the Help Centre home page, so ClaimDesk links the live one with the date it was last opened.

What is the Instagram copyright report form URL?

ClaimDesk links Instagram's Copyright Report Form and its combined rights form, each with the date we last opened and read it. Every destination is re-probed by a script rather than trusted from a bookmark, so a form that quietly starts redirecting is caught instead of shipped.

How do I prove I posted a photo or Reel first?

Paste both public links into ImposterProof. It reads Instagram's own taken_at timestamp for each post, orders them, and writes the first-published sentence the impersonation and IP forms ask for - with the honest caveat that a timestamp shows when a post was created, not who created the work.

Should I file a DMCA counter-notice on Instagram?

ClaimDesk explains what one is and refuses to generate it. A counter-notice is a sworn statement that publishes your name and address to the person who complained and consents to a court's jurisdiction, and a false one carries damages under 17 U.S.C. 512(f). Talk to a lawyer first.

How do I appeal an Instagram decision under the EU DSA?

Appeal Pack lists the six statement-of-reasons fields to ask Meta for, and explains the out-of-court dispute settlement route the Digital Services Act creates. It links nothing it has not opened and read on a dated check, so where the registry has no entry it says so. It cannot file anything for you.

What is DMrun?

DMrun (dmrun.com) is shotMod's sibling product: AI Instagram DM automation that auto-replies to comments, Story replies and DMs to turn comments into customers. Once shotMod helps you make the content, DMrun helps you make money from it — 2,800+ creators run their DMs on it, with a free plan and a 2-minute setup.

About ClaimDesk

ClaimDesk is a free, no-login Instagram takedown desk from shotMod for when someone steals your Reel, clones your account or posts you without consent. Answer four questions — what happened, who you are, where it happened and whether you are in the EU — and it routes you to exactly one Meta report form, tells you what to have ready before you start, and builds a timestamped evidence pack from the public post link. There is no login, no account and no API keys.

Every destination it sends you to comes from a dated registry that a script re-opens and re-reads, so a form that quietly starts redirecting is caught here rather than handed to you at the worst possible moment. Everything else runs in your browser: the evidence pack, the PDF, the first-published comparison and the watch list never leave your device, and nothing you drop in is uploaded. ClaimDesk is honest about its ceiling — it can prepare a report, and only Instagram can act on one.

ClaimDesk is one of the free Instagram tools on shotMod by SourceStrong AI, and it sits next to the Rights Center, which covers what shotMod itself hosts and how to reach us. Once your content is live, its sibling tool DMrun (dmrun.com) can turn the comments and DMs it earns into customers.