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Guatemala: Global Witness assesses how social media is being used to smear and criminalise defenders

Global Witness has launched a report assessing how social networks, including Facebook, TikTok and X, "have become a tool to disinform, smear and strengthen the criminalisation" of indigenous leaders and climate activists in Guatemala.

We invited the companies to comment on the findings. Meta's response is available. TikTok and X did not respond.

Company Responses

Meta (formerly Facebook) View Response
X Corp. (formerly Twitter)

No Response

TikTok (part of ByteDance)

No Response

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