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.
Meta Is Deleting Queer and Sex Worker Accounts, and Our Communities Are Being Erased With Them
More than 45 queer and sex worker accounts have been removed across the UK, the Netherlands, and other countries in a coordinated wave of digital erasure. This is not random. It is part of a wider political and economic logic that silences communities perceived as a threat to conservative agendas, reshapes sex work as “exploitation,” and prioritises corporate risk over human rights, safety, and free expression online.
Repro Uncensored: Bridging Online and Offline Community Organizing for Stronger Movements
Repro Uncensored is exploring how open-source platforms like Decidim can bridge online and offline community organizing. In a time of increasing surveillance, censorship, and repression, autonomous digital spaces are essential for protecting movements, strengthening participation, and ensuring collective decision-making remains in the hands of communities.
Low fertility isn’t a crisis. It may even be progress
An in-depth look at pronatalism, declining fertility, and the political panic around population “crisis,” through the work of Nandita Bajaj, challenging the idea that fewer births signal collapse and reframing reproductive choice as progress.
The Death of Teen Vogue Is Not an Accident, It’s Digital Suppression in Disguise
When Teen Vogue is folded into Vogue.com, it’s not just a business move, it’s a warning. In this sharp, urgent essay, Ana Karen Flores argues that what’s being sold as “streamlining” is in fact digital suppression in disguise, a quiet erasure of young, queer, and political voices that once challenged power and shaped a generation’s understanding of justice.
Your Menstrual Health Data is Very Valuable, and Big Tech Wants It.
Google and period-tracking app Flo Health have been ordered to pay a total of $56M in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit, after Flo shared user’s intimate menstrual cycle and fertility data with Meta, Google, and two further platforms between 2016-2019.
How to Avoid Instagram Shadowbans in 2025: A Guide for Activists and Creators
Understand how Meta’s algorithm flags posts and learn key strategies to protect your reach when sharing political or activist content on Instagram.
Documenting Discriminatory Content Moderation: Data-Collection Guidelines for Legal Evidence
These guidelines are designed to facilitate the collection of evidence to enable potential legal recourse against discriminatory content moderation.
Structural Food Inequity and Community-Based Solutions: A Case for Plant-Based Justice
Structural Food Inequity and Community-Based Solutions: A Case for Plant-Based Justice. The term “food deserts” suggests a naturally occurring issue, but it is the result of structural inequality.
From Free to Open: Building a Better Internet
Today's popular platforms are free to use but profit from collecting, packaging, and selling our behavioral data. We have a "Free Internet" - not an "Open Internet." This economic model is the foundation of the modern Internet and relies on constant surveillance. It needs our constant attention and data to fuel targeted advertising, political manipulation, and information warfare.
Repro Uncensored joins the ‘onionverse’
When a person's digital data is used as a weapon against reproductive freedom, secure and private internet access isn't just a nice feature–it's the only way to fight back.
The Impact of U.S. Funding Cuts and Media Censorship on Abortion Access
U.S. Foreign Aid Freezes and Information Suppression Are Restricting Abortion Access. The suspension of U.S. foreign aid, including funding for abortion services and reproductive health programs, has devastated healthcare systems across Africa.
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