Rhian Farnworth (they/them) is a digital rights specialist and researcher focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), as well as freedom of access to information, digital censorship, privacy, dataveillance, digital neocolonialism, and disinformation. Rhian holds an MA in Gender Studies from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and has previously worked with SRHR network Share-Net International, The KIT Institute, and Pride Photo Award
Recent Articles on Repro Uncensored:
Fable 5, the “most powerful AI model ever made”, was released by Anthropic on June 9, then promptly retracted just three days later. While it was live, Fable 5 downgraded results about gender affirming healthcare information to Opus 4.8, its former leading model at the time.
Meta quietly announced via the help center it is removing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram messages on May 8, 2026. E2EE messages and calls ensure only you and the people that you're communicating with, can see or listen to your messages, and no one else can.
Big Tech platforms claim to allow queer, sexual, and reproductive health content, yet their automated systems routinely erase it. Across Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and beyond, accounts are deleted, content is demonetised, and pleasure-affirming information is mislabelled as “adult,” while misogynistic and male-centred sexual content continues to thrive.
Google and period-tracking app Flo Health have been ordered to pay a total of $56M in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit, after Flo shared user’s intimate menstrual cycle and fertility data with Meta, Google, and two further platforms between 2016-2019.
It's a great time to be a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, as VPN downloads topped app-store charts in the UK last week. This followed the roll-out of strict Age Verification (AV) checks that were implemented on pornography sites on July 25, as part of a new iteration of the UK’s Online Safety Act.