Dozens of Instagram accounts linked to Albanian activists, journalists and an opposition party leader have been closed or disabled amid ongoing protests over a luxury hotel development linked to U.S President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

In October 2021, Abrham Meareg’s father, a professor of chemistry in Ethiopia’s northern town of Bahir Dar, was shot at close range and died outside his family home. This was in the middle of the country’s civil war.

Over the past year, marginalised communities, including LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities, have reported a growing wave of account suspensions, removals and restrictions from Meta’s moderation systems.

HIV charity says it is being targeted by a loosely organised campaign of spurious complaints motivated by stigma

A South Dakota law banning ads for pro-choice websites. Bills in Texas, Iowa, and South Carolina outlawing internet service providers from hosting websites with abortion pill information. A Texas university canceling a speech by an abortion provider. A professor demoted over a pro-choice op-ed.

A South Dakota law banning ads for pro-choice websites. Bills in Texas, Iowa, and South Carolina outlawing internet service providers from hosting websites with abortion pill information. A Texas university canceling a speech by an abortion provider. A professor demoted over a pro-choice op-ed.

The NGO Repro Uncensored accuses Meta of censoring more than 100 European civil society actors on Instagram. Among them are nine Berlin party organizers and clubs. What they all have in common is that they publish progressive, queer, and gender-related content.

Sex workers' and queer collectives' accounts are disappearing. Meta is flattening social media, and the grief is growing.

Meta targets reproductive rights: Five pro-choice organizations disappear from Facebook in a week.

When ‘simply being seen becomes political’: Meta’s crackdown on Australian LGBTQ+ accounts

NO LONGER ONLINE: Queer Censorship and the Illusion of Platform Neutrality

The only thing consistent about the social media platform’s rules on showing naked body parts appears to be its inconsistency in enforcing them.

As the EU publishes its digital sovereignty plans, we've come up with a little techno-utopian package of our own. Our guest throughout is tech and solar-punk author Cory Doctorow: join us as we explore queer social media take-backs, French AIs, Finish super-computers, Croatian Wikipedia and all the reasons why this might just be the moment in which things start to change for the better.

Republicans in Washington often call the EU’s digital platform rules online censorship. For those working in adult industries, sex education and women’s health, the rules should be a tool to combat suppression of lawful speech online – but many say restrictions on their posts and accounts are only intensifying. Businesses, women’s health organizations, educators and […]

Comptes désactivés, publications supprimées, visibilité réduite... Des organisations de santé sexuelle, de droits reproductifs ou queer dénoncent une vague de restrictions sur Instagram. Plus de 130 signalements ont été recensés rien qu'en avril par l'organisation Repro Uncensored. En France, des programmes de Médecins du Monde sont touchés. 

Dutch queer organisations and digital rights advocates are taking legal action against Meta in response to a wave of Instagram account removals targeting LGBTQIA+ venues, artists, publications and communities.

Meta moet stoppen met het zonder motivering blokkeren en verwijderen van queer-accounts op Instagram. Dat schrijven organisaties in een sommatiebrief aan de techgigant.

The legal action is being coordinated by reproductive rights advocacy group Repro Uncensored alongside Dutch digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom and several queer organisations and venues.

Meta moet binnen twee weken tekst en uitleg geven over het verwijderen van tientallen Nederlandse queer accounts in het afgelopen halfjaar van Facebook en Instagram. Als dat niet gebeurt, stappen de organisaties achter die accounts naar de rechter.

LGBTQ people and sex workers are among those who say Instagram deleted their accounts.

Meta Tientallen accounts van queerorganisaties, clubs en culturele initiatieven verdwenen de afgelopen maanden van Instagram. Een aantal accounts werd later weer hersteld. Nu eisen verschillende organisaties dat Meta stopt met het zonder uitleg blokkeren van accounts.

Meta denies claims it unfairly targets LGBTQ+ users as critics point to suspended queer and sexual wellness accounts.

What does it mean to be a woman on an internet where you can be stripped naked in one click?

The venue, which has operated on Oxford Street since 1989, said the account – followed by more than 5,000 people – was removed in March. Management said no content had been flagged before the suspension.

Zambia cancels world’s largest human rights and tech summit days before start

Removed, deranked, and shadowbanned

Censuur Zonder waarschuwing verwijderde Meta ze: Instagramaccounts van queerclubs, nachtclubs en activistische organisaties, soms met tienduizenden volgers. „Je beseft pas hoeveel macht Meta heeft, als ze alles van je afpakken.”

Techgigant Meta heeft opnieuw tientallen Instagramaccounts van onder meer queer organisaties en individuen verwijderd. Ook accounts van de Nederlandse organisaties The Queer Agenda, Club Church en gaysauna Nieuwezijds zijn offline gehaald. In december blokkeerde Meta ook al tientallen accounts zonder uitleg.

Techgigant Meta heeft opnieuw tientallen Instagramaccounts van onder meer queer organisaties en individuen verwijderd. Ook accounts van de Nederlandse organisaties The Queer Agenda, Club Church en gaysauna Nieuwezijds zijn offline gehaald. In december blokkeerde Meta ook al tientallen accounts zonder uitleg.