Category: Instagram / Meta
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Senator appears to suggest bipartisan bill would censor transgender content online
Rating: Transneutral, NBC News, September 5, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Senator appears to suggest bipartisan bill would censor transgender content online A co-sponsor of a bipartisan bill intended to protect children from the dangers of social media and other online content appeared to suggest the measure…
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Elon Musk claims use of ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ on Twitter is ‘harassment’, threatens to suspend users
Twitter owner Elon Musk has declared both ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ are slurs on the social media platform, warning people who engage in “repeated, targeted harassment” by using them face account suspensions. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Target Sees Small Win After Pride Collection Backlash
Major retailer Target has had a win after weeks of facing calls for a boycott over its support for the LGBTQ+ community. Rating: Transneutral, Newsweek, June 16, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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GLAAD: Social media networks fail to protect LGBTQ users
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok all get failing marks when it comes to protecting LGBTQ users on their social networks, according to a new report from GLAAD. Rating: Transsupportive, Axios, July (actually June?) 13, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Online content policing loses steam
On tech’s biggest platforms, efforts to limit undesirable content are splintering as corporate priorities change. Rating: Transneutral, Axios, February 15, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Women Are Adult Human Females: Why Trans Women Aren’t Women
Kellie-Jay Keen (AKA Posie Parker) is a women’s rights campaigner and prominent critic of the trans rights movement (which she criticises because of the effect she believes it has on women). She is the founder of “Standing for Women” and appears regularly in the news and media, most recently in a heated interview with James…