Thread by @seyiakiwowo

🧵 Facebook and #RoevWade

In June I said how Tech companies respond to #RoeVsWade will be crucial not just for women's rights but the right to privacy. Tech companies can make it difficult for data to be shared with courts/prosecution but facebook did not
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

Oh and don't forget that within 48 hours Facebook managed to ban abortion related content but not... harassment, slurs, hate speech or revenge porn.
Instagram was censoring abortion content!
Meta have actively chosen to stay on that wrong side of history.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

This is at the same time Meta is harming democracy in Kenya. Not only allowing misinformation and hate speech on its platform, its taking money from it.
Meta has allowed ads that include hate speech and calls for ethnic violence
wired.com/story/kenya-fa…

Facebook, Instagram and Meta's continual failure to take women's safety online seriously is an indicator of how they will treat not just other minoritised communities... but us all. Infringing on women's rights is an experiment for what else they can get away with.

I understand the sentiment behind #DeleteFacebook. And for privacy reasons you need to, pls do. But for so many people they cannot and Meta keeps dominating the tech market (it's why they are being investigated by the FTC).

Instead we need to be pushing for regulation, transparency and fairness, just like *every* single other industry.
We need to be holding @nickclegg accountable for the harmful PR and using his political connections to protect Meta.