This month, we were invited by Amnesty International office in Warsaw to join other digital rights & LGBTI rights participants during a workshop on “Big Tech Accountability and LGBTI Human Rights”. The meeting was part of a global tour focusing on minorities’ freedom of expression and the successful prevention of hate speech.
This comes in the light of their work on freedom of expression for minority groups online. You can find more of their founding in the report on the removal of reproductive rights information on the platforms here. Amnesty found that the removal of abortion-related content on social media platforms with inadequate or unclear justification can contribute to the increasing challenges in accessing abortion care and threatens the right to health and bodily autonomy, according to a new briefing from Amnesty International.
CEE Digital Democracy Watch joins the call upon Meta and TikTok to be more transparent about how their community guidelines apply to abortion content. They should also improve transparency on the use of recommendation systems and content moderation algorithms. Additionally, they should proactively identify, prevent, and address any harms arising from their content moderation and the potential suppression of abortion-related content.