Twitter did not respond to allegations that the platform enables LGBT people digital targeting in MENA region
On 15 March 2023, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Twitter to respond to the allegations that the digital platform enables the digital targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia by allowing abusive content on its digital platforms, and to respond to the recommendations to invest in content moderation and conduct human rights due diligence that includes identifying, preventing, ceasing, mitigating, remediating, and accounting for potential and actual adverse impacts of digital targeting on human rights, among others. Both the allegation and recommendations contained in the Human Rights Watch's report ‘All This Terror Because of a Photo’: Digital Targeting and Its Offline Consequences for LGBT People in the Middle East and North Africa”. The company did not respond.
