Pakistani Activists: Social Media Policies Exploited for Censorship

Back in January, when a human rights activist Gul Bukhari tweeted pictures of a dead body, which seemed to have torture marks on it, to challenge the local police’s narrative that the death was natural, Twitter changed her settings.   “Effectively my voice had been muted,” she said.     She found out about the change from her followers who complained that they could not view the content she was sharing with them.   In a subsequent email, Twitter told her that her...

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