Voice of America: Pakistani activists: Social Media Policies Exploited for Censorship

Voice of America: Pakistani activists: Social Media Policies Exploited for Censorship
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Updated 28 April 2018 13:55
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Voice of America: Pakistani activists: Social Media Policies Exploited for Censorship

Voice of America: Pakistani activists: Social Media Policies Exploited for Censorship

April 26: Voice of America report by Ayesha Tanzeem states that 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.

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