Business Attacks

Adult stars and sex workers say Instagram unfairly patrols their accounts while letting celebrities dodge the same rules.

Meta’s Oversight Board — a panel of experts selected by the company to deliberate on content decisions — released a decision this week recommending the company clarify arbitrary and vague definitions concerning nudity, sexual activity and sexual solicitation.

Twitter “permanently suspended” the Pineapple Support account over the weekend, founder Leya Tanit reported through her personal account.

After backlash from artists whose work has been unknowingly used to train AI models, Kickstarter updated its policies.

FSC staff this week met with key House and Senate offices in a series of meetings discussing banking discrimination against the adult industry.

Social media users are inventing new words to outsmart punitive content moderation systems.

The sexting crackdown by the company that hosted SextPanther’s service seems to be yet another attack on the sex work industry.

Religiously motivated anti-porn and anti-sex-work group NCOSE — formerly Morality in Media — announced today that one of its lead staffers has been appointed to the safety board of Snap, the company behind social media platform Snapchat.

In a new paper, Google researchers continue to classify explicit sexual material in the same category as “fake, hateful, or harmful content” that requires filtering.

Porn star Alana Evans’ video went viral describing how her bank closed her account because she’s a legal sex worker. Here, she writes about why we must all push back.