Meta was criticized by sex worker activists in the UK for deleting the Instagram accounts of sex-worker led art collectives, including Sexquisite, Cybertease, and UK Sex Worker Pride. Advocates say these accounts, with over 52,000 followers, were fully compliant with Instagram’s rules, but were deleted without notice.
This appears to be part of a larger move by Meta, starting in October, to restrict queer, sex-positive, and pro-abortion access spaces across all its platforms. This may be another example of high tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg cozying up to the socially conservative agenda of the Trump administration to forestall potentially intrusive government regulation.
