Meta Is Deleting Queer and Sex Worker Accounts, and Our Communities Are Being Erased With Them
More than 45 queer and sex worker accounts have been removed across the UK, the Netherlands, and other countries in a coordinated wave of digital erasure. This is not random. It is part of a wider political and economic logic that silences communities perceived as a threat to conservative agendas, reshapes sex work as “exploitation,” and prioritises corporate risk over human rights, safety, and free expression online.
Repro Uncensored: Bridging Online and Offline Community Organizing for Stronger Movements
Repro Uncensored is exploring how open-source platforms like Decidim can bridge online and offline community organizing. In a time of increasing surveillance, censorship, and repression, autonomous digital spaces are essential for protecting movements, strengthening participation, and ensuring collective decision-making remains in the hands of communities.
Your Menstrual Health Data is Very Valuable, and Big Tech Wants It.
Google and period-tracking app Flo Health have been ordered to pay a total of $56M in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit, after Flo shared user’s intimate menstrual cycle and fertility data with Meta, Google, and two further platforms between 2016-2019.
The Age Verification law: Training a Nation to Use VPNs / a Pornography Privacy Nightmare
It's a great time to be a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, as VPN downloads topped app-store charts in the UK last week. This followed the roll-out of strict Age Verification (AV) checks that were implemented on pornography sites on July 25, as part of a new iteration of the UK’s Online Safety Act.
How to Avoid Instagram Shadowbans in 2025: A Guide for Activists and Creators
Understand how Meta’s algorithm flags posts and learn key strategies to protect your reach when sharing political or activist content on Instagram.
Documenting Discriminatory Content Moderation: Data-Collection Guidelines for Legal Evidence
These guidelines are designed to facilitate the collection of evidence to enable potential legal recourse against discriminatory content moderation.
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