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Facebook Joined by Human Rights Groups to Fight Spyware Maker

23 Dec 2020
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Facebook Joined by Human Rights Groups to Fight Spyware Maker
23 Dec 2020
Facebook Joined by Human Rights Groups to Fight Spyware Maker
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Tanzania ‘using Twitter’s copyright policy to silence activists’

22 Dec 2020
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Tanzania ‘using Twitter’s copyright policy to silence activists’
22 Dec 2020
Tanzania ‘using Twitter’s copyright policy to silence activists’

Tanzania inatumia uzimaji wa mtandao kama silaha. Watanzania wazungumza.

19 Dec 2020
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Tanzania inatumia uzimaji wa mtandao kama silaha. Watanzania wazungumza.
19 Dec 2020
Tanzania inatumia uzimaji wa mtandao kama silaha. Watanzania wazungumza.
Protest and human rights

Open Letter to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube: Stop silencing critical voices from the Middle East and North Africa

17 Dec 2020 •

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, and Access Now, activists, journalists, and human rights organizations, are voicing our frustration at how platform policies and content moderation procedures all too often lead to the silencing and erasure of critical voices across the Middle East and North Africa.

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Open Letter to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube: Stop silencing critical voices from the Middle East and North Africa
17 Dec 2020
Open Letter to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube: Stop silencing critical voices from the Middle East and North Africa
Protest and human rights

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube must end the attack on critical voices in MENA

17 Dec 2020 •

Access Now and 42 human rights organizations, journalists, and activists from across the globe call on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to not be complicit in censorship of human rights defenders across the Middle East and North Africa.

Press Release
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube must end the attack on critical voices in MENA
17 Dec 2020
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube must end the attack on critical voices in MENA
human impact of internet shutdowns

Tanzania is weaponizing internet shutdowns. Here’s what its people have to say

16 Dec 2020 •

Join us and share these 11 personal stories to show how the shutdowns in Tanzania are affecting people’s lives. Amplify voices from Tanzania.

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Tanzania is weaponizing internet shutdowns. Here’s what its people have to say
16 Dec 2020
Tanzania is weaponizing internet shutdowns. Here’s what its people have to say

Africa internet: Where and how are governments blocking it?

2 Nov 2020
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Africa internet: Where and how are governments blocking it?
2 Nov 2020
Africa internet: Where and how are governments blocking it?
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As Tanzania votes, government forces telecom companies to escalate censorship

27 Oct 2020 •

Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition denounce the Tanzania government’s repressive measures to stifle fundamental rights and freedoms, and call on telecommunication service providers to keep people online in the build up to tomorrow’s presidential elections. 

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As Tanzania votes, government forces telecom companies to escalate censorship
27 Oct 2020
As Tanzania votes, government forces telecom companies to escalate censorship

Tell U.S. FCC: Don’t help Trump spread disinformation

31 Aug 2020 •

Disinformation has no place in a democracy. Tell the FCC to reject President Trump’s effort to bully his fact-checkers and fundamentally change Section 230 — the legal backbone of the internet.

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Tell U.S. FCC: Don’t help Trump spread disinformation
31 Aug 2020
Tell U.S. FCC: Don’t help Trump spread disinformation
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Belarus is reportedly blocking and throttling Twitter in reaction to protests

10 Aug 2020
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Belarus is reportedly blocking and throttling Twitter in reaction to protests
10 Aug 2020
Belarus is reportedly blocking and throttling Twitter in reaction to protests