X suspended multiple accounts linked to an SRHR campaign in DR Congo
📅 Date: February 2026
📍 Region: Democratic Republic of the Congo
📱 Platform: X
🔗 Account: Multiple individual accounts
During a Valentine’s Day sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) awareness campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, multiple advocates’ accounts sharing campaign materials were fully suspended on X, while others faced repeated shadow banning.
These resources provided crucial information on confidentiality in care, protection from reproductive coercion and violence, and access to trusted health support.
Silencing them reinforces stigma and weakens pathways to confidential care.
In the DRC, around 80% of young people aged 18–25 rely on social media for health and rights information, making platforms like X a critical channel for accessing timely, trusted SRHR guidance.
The removal and suppression of these accounts directly disrupted access to reliable health information, confidential support pathways, and referral options, increasing vulnerability to misinformation and delayed care.
These enforcement actions affected accounts actively sharing or amplifying SRHR campaign materials, undermining public health outreach efforts designed to promote informed decision-making, safety, and bodily autonomy.
This case reflects a broader pattern in which SRHR information and advocacy content face disproportionate scrutiny, opaque enforcement, and limited recourse on digital platforms, particularly in contexts where online spaces function as essential health access infrastructure.
Such restrictions do not only reduce visibility. They directly impact the ability of individuals and communities to access confidential, accurate, and stigma-free reproductive health information and support when they need it most.
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