Police use fake profiles to entrap LGBT people
Reported. Documented by journalists, researchers or Meta’s own files, with no legal finding. How evidence is labeled
Human Rights Watch documented security forces in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan creating fake profiles on Grindr and Facebook to trap LGBT people, leading to arrests, abuse and extortion. HRW has pressed Meta on how its platforms respond to this targeting.
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