Facebook and Instagram to remove ad targeting options based on sexuality
Facebook and Instagram will remove advert targeting options based on users’ interest in posts based on sexuality, the social media platforms’ parent…
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Instagram’s sensitive content controls worry sex-focused creators
Instagram has launched a function allowing users to further limit the amount of potentially sensitive material, including “sexually suggestive” content, that they…
Instagram’s rule clarifications remain a confusing mess for adult creators
Facebook-owned Instagram is updating its community guidelines and terms of use, leaving sex workers & other marginalized content creators in fear of…
Instagram reverses nudity policy to support plus-sized Black women, but has to ‘draw the line somewhere’
As of Wednesday October 28, Facebook-owned-Instagram changed its nudity policy to allow content where someone is “simply hugging, cupping or holding their…
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram finally act on conversion therapy ads
Facebook has joined sister site Instagram in banning adverts offering so-called ‘conversion’ therapies from the platform. The blanket move was triggered after…
Lex is a ‘personal ad’ inspired dating app for lesbian, bisexual, asexual, and queer people
What began as an Instagram account for sharing personal ads, Lex app is now the hot new dating and social platform for…
‘Big Porn’ is turning to virtual influencers to avoid social media shadow bans
How can xHamster be confident that the new face of the brand will be worth the investment? Well, ‘she’ was made using…
Instagram is slowly reversing its unexplained adult performer account suspensions
Efforts to challenge Instagram for its removal of hundreds of adult performers’ accounts have proved successful – even if there’s still a…
YouPorn’s NFSW virtual ambassador could make life harder for real performers
YouPorn has launched its very own ‘virtual influencer’, called Jedy Vales. Though not the first CGI ambassador (see Lil Miquela and KFC’s…
Adults-only social media platform PleazeMe launches in US
The beta version of the adult-friendly social media platform PleazeMe launched in the US and Canada this week, hoping to elevate the…
The cat-and-mouse game between Twitter, Snapchat, and users monetizing their followers
It’ll come as no surprise at all to hear that Twitter and Snapchat are awash with adult content – and while that’s…
If you’re an ‘adult’ Instagram user building a brand, you may as well give up now
Time and time again, we’ve reminded people that big tech is rarely the friend of the adult world, or any of the…
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Facebook and Instagram to remove ad targeting options based on sexuality
Instagram’s sensitive content controls worry sex-focused creators
Instagram’s rule clarifications remain a confusing mess for adult creators
Instagram reverses nudity policy to support plus-sized Black women, but has to ‘draw the line somewhere’
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram finally act on conversion therapy ads
Lex is a ‘personal ad’ inspired dating app for lesbian, bisexual, asexual, and queer people
‘Big Porn’ is turning to virtual influencers to avoid social media shadow bans
Instagram is slowly reversing its unexplained adult performer account suspensions
YouPorn’s NFSW virtual ambassador could make life harder for real performers
Adults-only social media platform PleazeMe launches in US
The cat-and-mouse game between Twitter, Snapchat, and users monetizing their followers
If you’re an ‘adult’ Instagram user building a brand, you may as well give up now
Facebook really, really doesn’t want (you) to talk about sex
Google and Apple reject model’s Nood app that makes pics ‘safe’ for Instagram
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked age verification as a live policy battleground since 2016, from the UK's Digital Economy Act delays and eventual collapse…
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Coverage thread Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
Eight years of coverage tracking image-based sexual abuse from the DeepNude app's brief viral moment through the nudify industry's current expansion, mapping…
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