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TikTok, the popular video-sharing social networking service, faced scrutiny late last year for reportedly censoring the videos of people with disabilities and people in the LGBTQ community. This censorship was apart of of TikTok’s anti-bullying policy that aims to protect users they deem to be “susceptible to bullying or harassment based on their physical orContinue reading “TikTok Censors Videos to Prevent Bullying”

https://www.newsweek.com/instagram-censoring-accounts-farsi-media-outlets-iranian-influencers-international-federation-1481609 Earlier this month, Iran’s major general Qassem Soleimani was killed under orders from the United States. With this killing came not only protests from Iran but also censorship from one of the most widely used social media apps in the world, Instagram. Instagram has chosen to censor the Instagram posts of many Iranian journalistsContinue reading “Instagram Censors Posts from Iran”