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Yasmina El Zein • 19 Mar 2026

Meta is making Instagram DMs less private, WANA users could pay the price

Meta’s removal of the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) technology for its Instagram Direct Messages (DMs) could pose serious risk to internet…

  • Censorship
  • Digital Rights
  • encryption
Metehan Durmaz • 03 Jul 2025

Meta AI’s darker side 

AI chatbots have become more and more integrated in the lives of millions since 2022. Beyond technical assistance and finding…

  • AI
  • Chatbot
  • Instagram
Zeinab Ismail • 23 Feb 2024

Meta Contemplates Banning the Use of the Term “Zionist”

Laying the Ground for Further Repression of Palestine’s Supporters 73 civil society organizations, including SMEX, have urged Meta to reverse…

  • Content Moderation
  • Digital Authoritarianism
  • DOI list
SMEX • 27 Sep 2022

Statement Regarding BSR’s HRA for Meta on Palestine & Israel

  • BSR
  • Content Moderation
  • Facebook
Mubarak al Yosofy • 20 Sep 2021

Yemen: The Race for Censorship

As the war in Yemen rages on, and while the country is witnessing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis according to…

  • content censorship
  • Instagram
  • Internet Shutdown
SMEX • 11 May 2021

Petition to #SavePalestinianVoices: Tech Companies Must Stop Silencing Palestinian Content

We demand Facebook and Twitter to immediately stop censoring Palestinian content, reinstate affected posts and accounts, and provide a clear and public explanation for the reasons why the content was removed.

  • al-Aqsa
  • Facebook
  • Freedom Of Expression
SMEX • 07 May 2021

Sheikh Jarrah: Facebook and Twitter systematically silencing protests, deleting evidence

Facebook and Twitter are systematically silencing users protesting and documenting the evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in the…

  • Content Moderation
  • Content Removal
  • Facebook
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