A Head-to-Toe Breakdown of Social Media’s Billion-Dollar Remedies
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Summary
A new report from Wired details the increased threats to digital security for LGBTIQ+ groups and individuals in El Salvador, where heightened frustrations among the general population due to government inaction on rising crime have been directed at LGBTIQ+ people.
The country’s LGBTIQ+ community has been utilising technology to document the authoritarian escalations and human rights abuses, while also fighting against the cyberbullying and bigotry that has spiked in tandem with these events.
With digital threats ranging from location-based violence to sophisticated spyware, advocates acknowledge the contested grounds for leveraging digital tools in this context, despite their effectiveness at raising awareness and documenting abuses.
The increased digitisation of Latin American historical records and archives relating to LGBTIQ+ history has also been highlighted as a crucial means of battling violence and erasure in the region.
