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Social media and human rights

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Overview

Social media platforms shape how people access information, express themselves and participate in public life, but their design and business models can also cause significant harm.

This collection brings together resources that expose these harms, challenge company practices, and push for greater accountability and transparency.

It signposts to work exploring online abuse and discrimination, the real‑world consequences of platform design and policies, and the role of platforms in enabling serious human rights abuses globally.

Alongside these, you’ll also find links to related collections and tools that show how this work fits into the wider picture of digital rights advocacy.

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Explore our work

The resources listed below bring together resources produced by Amnesty International UK’s Politics, Policy and research team.

Each resource exposes the human rights impacts of social media platforms, and our work to drive positive change whilst holding tech companies to account.

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