Meta accused of banning LGBTQ+ accounts in one of its "biggest waves of censorship" everhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/meta-accused-of-banning-lgbtq-accounts-in-one-of-its-biggest-waves-of-censorship-ever/ 🔗John Russell (11 Dec 2025)
Meta – the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp – has reportedly disabled or shadow-banned the accounts of more than 50 abortion providers, queer organizations, and reproductive healthcare organizations around the world over the past few months.
What an advocate described as "one of the biggest waves of censorship" on the company's platforms began in October and appears to be an escalation of Meta's Trump-era approach to abortion and LGBTQ+ related content, The Guardian reports.
While many of the organizations whose accounts were removed or restricted are based in the U.K. and Europe, groups serving women in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East have also been affected.
This past October, Paige Collings with Electronic Freedom Foundation told The Bay Area Reporter that censorship of LGBTQ+ content on Instagram has noticeably increased since November 2024. She described the company as engaging in "algorithmic silencing" of LGBTQ+ content on Instagram.
"Within this last year, especially since the new US presidency, we have seen a definite increase in accounts being taken down — not only in the US, but also worldwide as a ripple effect," Martha Dimitratou, executive director of nonprofit Repro Uncensored, told The Guardian. The organization has tracked over 200 instances of accounts related to reproductive health being removed or restricted in all of 2025 compared to the 81 it tracked in 2024.
"This has been, to my knowledge, at least one of the biggest waves of censorship we are seeing," Dimitratou said.
