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Apps can be weaponized to criminalize those seeking abortion care. Under Trump, it could get worse

Researchers also bring attention to big tech’s business model and how it “facilitates mass surveillance of users seeking reproductive health care.” For example, people are frequently forced to consent to companies having permission to collecting and use their data, or they’re denied access to the platform. Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade with the … Read more

Groups helping Americans find abortion pills report Instagram ‘shadow-banning’

Over the last week, the accounts of some major organizations that help Americans find abortion pills had their Instagram posts censored or removed, and at least one group said its account became difficult to find through searching – a practice known as “shadow-banning”. Read more at The Guardian  

Social media has always been hostile to abortion content

“There isn’t a progressive organization that hasn’t had some problems with social media platforms, either removing their content, falsely flagging their content, or being given sort of the runaround by tech support,” said Jessica Ensley, senior vice president of outreach at Reproaction. Read more at 19th News  

‘Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel about sexual power | Moira Donegan – opinion

This new, avowedly and vulgarly sexual rightwing masculinity is what Fuentes was crystalizing in his snide little coinage of “your body, my choice”: it is one that aims to use physical and sexual force to coerce women into a degraded gendered role, one subject to men’s domination and only partial, limited and conditional in its … Read more

Sexist attacks on women surge on social media after Trump’s win, report finds

As misogynistic voices online “exploit Donald Trump’s election as a rebuke of both reproductive rights and women’s rights,” the report stated, “the impact on women could extend into the next presidential election and beyond.” Fuentes’ post, which accrued more than 50,000 likes, was viewed more than 90 million times on X within a week. Though … Read more