Canada Research Chair in Digital Media & Global Network Society and Founding Director of ALiGN Media Lab, School of Journalism and Communication
, post-doctoral fellow, interim co-director of ALiGN Media Lab, School of Journalism and Communication
Following Red Dress Day on May 5, a day aimed to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), Indigenous activists and supporters of the campaign found posts about MMIWG had disappeared from their Instagram accounts. In response, Instagram released a tweet saying that this was “a widespread global technical issue not related to any particular topic,” followed by an apology explaining that the platform “experienced a technical bug, which impacted millions of people’s stories, highlights and archives around the world.”
Creators, however, said that not all stories were affected.
And this is not the first time social media platforms have been under scrutiny because of their erroneous censoring of grassroots activists and racial minorities.
Many Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists were similarly frustrated when Facebook flagged their accounts, but didn’t do enough to stop racism and hate speech against Black people on their platform.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021 in News, School of Journalism and Communication
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