Not Your Muse: How Meta Is Building the Most Complete Surveillance Architecture in Human History
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.
From Sarajevo to the Western Balkans: Lessons on Gender Equality and Democracy
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
Press Release: Amid Crackdown on Pride in Türkiye, More Than 120 LGBTQI+ and Feminist Social Media Accounts Suspended
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.
If Decentralised Social Media Promises Freedom from Censorship, Why Aren't Sex Workers Moving There? SXFestival Expo 2026
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.
Repro Uncensored X Waag Futurelab: You're Banned. Now What?
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.
Birth Control Misinformation: Information Access, Platform Power, and Health
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.
‘Too Dangerous’ to know: AI’s scaremongering playbook, HRT, & Fable 5
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.
Technology, Censorship, and Art in Japan: On Platform Power and Free Expression
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 Fertility Industry and the Myth of a Birth Rate Crisis: Why Pronatalism Won't Reverse Birth-Rate Decline
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’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organisations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action -Press Release
Amid Repro Uncensored and Dutch Queer Groups’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organizations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action
Mathematical Equations are Revealing New Insights into Women’s Bodies x UNAL
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 Are Taking Legal Action Against Meta -Press Release
Repro Uncensored, Bits of Freedom and Dutch Queer Organizations Issue Legal Demand Against Meta, Escalating Pressure for a European Class Action
Instagram Scraps Message Encryption in May 2026: KISS to Protect Reproductive Rights (EDRi)
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.
RU X IPPF: RightsCon Cancelled as Global Attacks on SRHR and Digital Freedoms Intensify -Press Release
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.
Rebalancing Power: What the Melbourne Declaration Reveals About the Crisis in Gender Equality- Women Deliver 2026
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?
Gnosis and the Politics of Knowledge: How Canonization Becomes Censorship
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.
Abortion in Benin: When Cost Becomes a Barrier to a Legal Right
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.
Does the Internet Feed Off of Women’s Bodies? How algorithms, AI, and platforms profit from the exploitation and silencing of women
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.
Repro Uncensored × The Guardian: Our Investigation on Meta’s Global Censorship of Abortion Advice and Queer Content
This research, conducted by Repro Uncensored, exposes a global escalation in the censorship of abortion access, sexual health, and queer content across Meta platforms, revealing opaque enforcement practices, ineffective appeals mechanisms, and material harm.
COP30 and the Limits of Gender-Responsive Climate Action
At COP30 in Belém, governments approved the Belém Gender Action Plan — a long-awaited framework for gender-responsive climate action. While the agreement marks real progress, feminist advocates warn that key issues, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, were diluted or erased, leaving critical gaps between commitments on paper and lived realities.
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