AI does not need to become “superintelligent” to do harm. It just needs a state that holds its switch.
On 9 September, researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted that the company and its rival OpenAI are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Within hours Anthropic’s alignment lead, Evan Hubinger, replied that Coxon was right.
Press Release: Türkiye Must Drop All Charges Against LGBTQI+ Activists
Repro Uncensored and the International Planned Parenthood Federation condemn the coordinated raids, detentions and digital censorship targeting LGBTQI+ organizations, activists and community spaces.
Brussels / Istanbul, 15 September 2026 — Repro Uncensored and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) condemn the sweeping attacks on LGBTQI+ communities in Türkiye and call for the immediate release of those detained, the dismissal of all discriminatory charges, and the restoration of blocked websites and social media accounts.
MEPs Demand EU Commission Action Over Meta Account Blocking in Albania-- UPDATE: Commission Responds
More than 30 MEPs from Renew Europe, the Greens/EFA, S&D and The Left have submitted a formal Parliamentary Question to the European Commission over Meta’s blocking of dozens of Albanian accounts belonging to activists, journalists and political figures, followed by the blocking of Euronews Albania’s Instagram account on 5 September. Euronews Albania’s account was subsequently restored, while Meta says it is investigating the case.
Press Release: Coordinated Digital Attacks Target Activists Documenting Albania’s Flamingo Revolution
Dozens of activists and civic platforms have been targeted, cutting hundreds of thousands of people off from information about the protests
The Algorithm Was Never a Curator: What Social Media's Takedowns Reveal About Its Arts Problem
Instagram launched as a place to share a photo of your coffee with the fifty people who already knew you. Facebook started as a directory for keeping up with classmates. Twitter was a place to answer one question: what are you doing right now? None of them were built to hold a body of creative work, protect an archive, or carry the weight of a gallery's reputation.
Dear Anthropic, We Need To Talk About The Watermark Because It Is More DangerousFor Your Users Than You Assessed
Someone is using Claude right now to draft a document about abortion access, LGBTQI+ rights or political dissent in a place where that work is criminalized.
That document may now carry an invisible, machine-readable watermark—without the user’s knowledge—creating a potential thread from the document to their account, their identity and a legal system that considers their work, healthcare or existence a crime.
Self-Censorship in the Balkans: How Social Structures Shape Online Violence and Political Participation
A research based exploration of how online violence, harassment, and emerging technologies are contributing to self censorship among women in the Western Balkans. The piece examines how fear of digital abuse can discourage women from speaking publicly, participating in political debate, or engaging in activism, and considers what this growing silence means for freedom of expression, political participation, and democracy across the region.
When the Censor Wears Two Masks: Meta, Ankara, and the Struggles of the Vibrant Queer Community in Türkiye
In the week before İstanbul Pride, the accounts began to vanish. Queer organizations faced with an unexpected error message while trying to access their social media accounts. Inside Turkiye, the Instagram pages of Kaos GL, İstanbul Pride Week, İstanbul Trans Pride Week, Ankara Pride, and İzmir Pride simply stopped existing
KOSA Won't Save Your Kids. You Will: Why internet restrictions, age verification, and censorship are no substitute for parenting.
This week the Senate Commerce Committee voted on two bills sold as ways to protect kids online. KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) passed unanimously and is now heading to the senate floor for a vote. The SCREEN (Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net) Act which details a requirement to verify your identity with a government ID just to use half the internet, narrowly failed to advance.
When Censorship Becomes a Lawsuit How one artist’s case is challenging Meta under the Digital Services Act
I think you might know the feeling: The conversation you were in just turned to static. Your cheeks flush. Your stomach drops. You hear yourself say, What the fuck?
Your account has been erased.
I've spent years talking to artists, activists, and creators whose work has disappeared in that gut-wrenching instant. No amount of experience, careful wording, backup plans or familiarity with platform rules really prepares you for it. It always feels surreal. One second you're there; the next you're gone, trying to prove you ever existed at all.
Not Your Muse: How Meta Is Building the Most Complete Surveillance Architecture in Human History
Facebook launched in 2004. By 2009 it had 300 million users. Today it has over three billion monthly active users and data going back nearly two decades. That data includes not just what people posted but what they liked, who they were friends with, how their social networks shifted, how their political views evolved, what they searched for, what ads they clicked, what they scrolled past. It is the most comprehensive longitudinal record of human ideological development ever assembled. For hundreds of millions of people, it begins at the moment they first encountered the internet.
From Sarajevo to the Western Balkans: Lessons on Gender Equality and Democracy
Two weeks ago, we participated in the Berlin Process Gender Equality Forum in Sarajevo, joining more than 150 representatives from governments, parliaments, academia, civil society, gender equality institutions, international organizations, and development partners from across the Western Balkans
Press Release: Amid Crackdown on Pride in Türkiye, More Than 120 LGBTQI+ and Feminist Social Media Accounts Suspended
Amid an escalating crackdown on LGBTQI+ communities in Türkiye, Repro Uncensored, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), ÜniKuir Association and Kaos GL are raising alarm over the suspension of more than 120 LGBTQI+ and feminist social media accounts across major social media platforms beginning on 19 June 2026, according to documentation compiled by Turkish civil society organizations.
If Decentralised Social Media Promises Freedom from Censorship, Why Aren't Sex Workers Moving There? SXFestival Expo 2026
Despite years of online censorship, sex workers are not flocking to decentralised social media. Drawing on interviews conducted at Berlin's SXFestival Expo 2026, this article explores why governance alone is not enough—and why audience, discoverability and economic opportunity continue to keep creators tied to Big Tech platforms.
Repro Uncensored X Waag Futurelab: You're Banned. Now What?
Digital censorship or digital suppression refers to platform practices that limit the visibility or availability of important information online. This includes content removals, account suspensions, shadowbanning, and other forms of algorithmic suppression.
Birth Control Misinformation: Information Access, Platform Power, and Health
Social media has become one of the primary ways people learn about health, relationships, and their bodies. Increasingly, it is also where people encounter information—and misinformation—about contraception and reproductive healthcare.
‘Too Dangerous’ to know: AI’s scaremongering playbook, HRT, & Fable 5
Fable 5, the “most powerful AI model ever made”, was released by Anthropic on June 9, then promptly retracted just three days later. While it was live, Fable 5 downgraded results about gender affirming healthcare information to Opus 4.8, its former leading model at the time.
Technology, Censorship, and Art in Japan: On Platform Power and Free Expression
Japanese visual artist Minori Murata works across CGI, video, installation, and interactive media to explore the relationships between technology, consumer culture, ecology, and collective belief. Known for creating immersive digital worlds that blur the boundaries between nature and the virtual, Murata’s work examines the systems that shape what we see and what remains hidden.
The Fertility Industry and the Myth of a Birth Rate Crisis: Why Pronatalism Won't Reverse Birth-Rate Decline
The Trump administration has failed to move the needle on its goal of boosting US declining birth rates and reversing the "fertility crisis," which Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy recently called "a threat not only to our economy, to our national security," and Dr. Oz said has left a third of Americans "under-babied."
Amid Repro Uncensored’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organisations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action -Press Release
Amid Repro Uncensored and Dutch Queer Groups’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organizations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action
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