The baby-faced Canadian musician, 22, got tired of negative comments about his new friendship with Sofia Richie.
The pair have been pictured stepping out together several times in recent weeks, amid a frenzy of rumors linking them romantically.
Reacting to insults posted by fans alongside pictures of the 17-year-old model — singer Lionel Richie’s daughter — Bieber told his 77 million followers: “I’m gonna make my Instagram private if you guys don’t stop the hate.
But the millionaire singer appears to have gone a step further, as clicking on links to his Instagram page now yields an error message.
Fellow singer Selena Gomez, Bieber’s former girlfriend, took the opportunity to twist the knife before the account was deleted.
Bieber is the latest in a series of celebrities dealing with abuse on social media by closing their accounts.
Actress and comedian Leslie Jones quit Twitter temporarily in June — devastated by a torrent of racist and sexist abuse aimed at her by trolls.
Bieber recently shut his Snapchat account too, and announced in May that he would no longer be taking pictures with fans in public.
Bieber and Gomez dated for almost two years from January 2011, but spilt up citing busy schedules.
Some fans interpreted “Sorry,” from Bieber’s album “Purpose,” which came out in November last year, as a message from the former child star to Gomez.
Bieber has had a string of legal run-ins for incidents including throwing eggs at a neighbor’s house, driving under the influence of alcohol without a license and allegedly assaulting a photographer.
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