I think you might know the feeling: The conversation you were in just turned to static. Your cheeks flush. Your stomach drops. You hear yourself say, What the fuck? 

Your account has been erased.

I've spent years talking to artists, activists, and creators whose work has disappeared in that gut-wrenching instant. No amount of experience, careful wording, backup plans or familiarity with platform rules really prepares you for it. It always feels surreal. One second you're there; the next you're gone, trying to prove you ever existed at all.

Facebook launched in 2004. By 2009 it had 300 million users. Today it has over three billion monthly active users and data going back nearly two decades. That data includes not just what people posted but what they liked, who they were friends with, how their social networks shifted, how their political views evolved, what they searched for, what ads they clicked, what they scrolled past. It is the most comprehensive longitudinal record of human ideological development ever assembled. For hundreds of millions of people, it begins at the moment they first encountered the internet.

Two weeks ago, we participated in the Berlin Process Gender Equality Forum in Sarajevo, joining more than 150 representatives from governments, parliaments, academia, civil society, gender equality institutions, international organizations, and development partners from across the Western Balkans

Amid an escalating crackdown on LGBTQI+ communities in Türkiye, Repro Uncensored, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), ÜniKuir Association and Kaos GL are raising alarm over the suspension of more than 120 LGBTQI+ and feminist social media accounts across major social media platforms beginning on 19 June 2026, according to documentation compiled by Turkish civil society organizations. 

Despite years of online censorship, sex workers are not flocking to decentralised social media. Drawing on interviews conducted at Berlin's SXFestival Expo 2026, this article explores why governance alone is not enough—and why audience, discoverability and economic opportunity continue to keep creators tied to Big Tech platforms.

Digital censorship or digital suppression refers to platform practices that limit the visibility or availability of important information online. This includes content removals, account suspensions, shadowbanning, and other forms of algorithmic suppression.

Social media has become one of the primary ways people learn about health, relationships, and their bodies. Increasingly, it is also where people encounter information—and misinformation—about contraception and reproductive healthcare.

Fable 5, the “most powerful AI model ever made”, was released by Anthropic on June 9, then promptly retracted just three days later. While it was live, Fable 5 downgraded results about gender affirming healthcare information to Opus 4.8, its former leading model at the time.

Japanese visual artist Minori Murata works across CGI, video, installation, and interactive media to explore the relationships between technology, consumer culture, ecology, and collective belief. Known for creating immersive digital worlds that blur the boundaries between nature and the virtual, Murata’s work examines the systems that shape what we see and what remains hidden.

The Trump administration has failed to move the needle on its goal of boosting US declining birth rates and reversing the "fertility crisis," which Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy recently called "a threat not only to our economy, to our national security," and Dr. Oz said has left a third of Americans "under-babied."

Amid Repro Uncensored and Dutch Queer Groups’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organizations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action

At Women Deliver 2026 Conference, a new declaration frames gender inequality as a systemic crisis and calls for a rebalancing of power across institutions. But does it go far enough in addressing who controls visibility, information, and participation today?

Repro Uncensored, Bits of Freedom and Dutch Queer Organizations Issue Legal Demand Against Meta, Escalating Pressure for a European Class Action

Meta quietly announced via the help center it is removing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram messages on May 8, 2026. E2EE messages and calls ensure only you and the people that you're communicating with, can see or listen to your messages, and no one else can.  

The cancellation comes at a time of growing global rollback on fundamental rights, including freedom of expression, access to information, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Many organisations including Repro Uncensored and International Planned Parenthood Federation, were set to speak at RightsCon, with dozens of sessions focused on censorship, platform governance, and access to reproductive health information online.

At Women Deliver 2026 Conference, a new declaration frames gender inequality as a systemic crisis and calls for a rebalancing of power across institutions. But does it go far enough in addressing who controls visibility, information, and participation today?

From the exclusion of the Gnostic texts to the ranking of content online, institutions have long determined which narratives are visible, legitimate, and preserved—and which are buried, discredited, or erased.

In Benin, abortion is legal under one of West Africa’s most progressive laws, yet access remains uneven. Financial barriers, inconsistent pricing, and gaps in implementation continue to shape whether women and girls can actually obtain care, turning a legal right into a deeply unequal reality.

In Leticia, Colombia, where healthcare often travels by air or river, cervical cancer screening reveals what access looks like beyond telemedicine. This piece explores how prevention, infrastructure, and follow up care operate in one of the country’s most geographically isolated regions, and what it means to build health access where systems are limited but the need is urgent.

At CSW70, one thing was clear: without civic space, rights cannot be defended. As backlash grows globally, the ability to organize, speak, and access information is increasingly under threat, especially online. Protecting civic space is essential to protecting gender justice.

A collective framework for rethinking how platforms govern sex, sexuality, and visibility online, outlining concrete principles for building more equitable, accountable, and sex-positive digital environments.

From facial recognition bias to AI-generated sexual violence and reproductive health censorship, digital systems increasingly shape how women’s bodies and voices appear online. As platforms prioritize engagement and profit, algorithmic infrastructures are amplifying exploitation, surveillance, and the silencing of feminist and reproductive health information.

This piece examines the Wikimedia Community User Group Senegal and how feminist librarians are working to document Senegalese knowledge, archives, and languages across Wikipedia and other open platforms.

A research and community intervention project piloting HPV self-screening in cultural spaces to decentralize preventative reproductive healthcare and expand equitable access in partnership with ProDx Health.

A leaked revision of Indonesia’s Broadcasting Bill suggests an expansion of state-style oversight into digital platforms and creator content.