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Human Rights Watch has launched a campaign that calls on social media giant Meta to do more to protect LGBTQ+ users from being abused online.

Beirut — New #SecureOurSocials Campaign Urges Transparency from Facebook, Instagram

(Beirut) – Meta should do more to protect the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and all its users, in particular on Facebook and Instagram, Human Rights Watch, Social Media Exchange (SMEX), INSM Foundation for Digital Rights, Helem, and Damj Association said in the #SecureOurSocials campaign opened today.

Meta should do more to protect the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and all its users, in particular on Facebook and Instagram, Human Rights Watch, Social Media Exchange (SMEX), INSM Foundation for Digital Rights, Helem, and Damj Association said in the #SecureOurSocials campaign opened today.

Popular gay dating app Grindr has issued a warning to its users in Egypt, following reports that police are using the app to impersonate and target gay and bisexual men and trans women. 

A new report examines how several authorities in the region have integrated technology into their policing of LGBTQI+ people.

Report documents dozens of cases of security agencies in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia extorting members of LGBTQ community based on their social media activities

Government officials across the Middle East and North Africa region are targeting LGBT people based on their online activity on social media. Security forces have entrapped LGBT people on social media and dating applications, subjected them to online extortion, online harassment, and outing, and relied on illegitimately obtained digital photos, chats, and similar information in prosecutions, in violation of the right to privacy and other human rights.

A rights group says in a new report that security agencies and government officials across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been using social media platforms and mobile dating apps to crack down on LGBTQ people

BEIRUT (AP) — Security agencies and government officials in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been using social media platforms and mobile dating apps to crack down on LGBTQ people, a rights group said Tuesday.