Meta rolled out Muse Image, one of its features allows strangers to generate images from people's public Instagram photos by simply @-mentioning their public Instagram accounts, with the burden placed on the user to opt out. Meta backed down on 10 July, but only on this one specific feature as a form of PR damage control whilst Muse Image itself is still rolling out and is very much alive across Meta AI. Meta did not indicate whether it will be reintroduced again in the futur

We respond to the preliminary report of the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence. To say this report was a disappointment is an understatement. It gathers damning evidence that AI capital is concentrated in the hands of tech corporations, whilst vulnerable users are harmed by business models built to extract attention, labour, data and natural resources. But instead of confronting ownership and Big Tech power, the report retreats into th

#StopDigitalDictatorship! ✊ Repression in our region does not work alone. It works through the military-BigTech industrial complex’s control over the spaces where we speak and organise. 🇺🇳 This is Manushya Foundation's submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights defenders in the digital age. 🌏 Across Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the same machinery appears in different uniforms, such as vague cyber law

Salamat, #DRAPAC2026! From 8-10 June, Manushya joined fellow digital rights activists in Manila to push back against techno-colonialism and digital authoritarianism. At the session "Inside the Black Box: Mappining Civil Society Engagement with Big Tech on Content Moderation," hosted by the South East Asia Collaborative Policy Network (SEA CPN), our Founder & Executive Director, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, drew from Manushya Foundation's s extensive work in grassroots-led platfor

Join us for 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝘅: 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, a co-learning workshop organised by the South East Asia Collaborative Policy Network (SEA CPN), where Manushya Foundation is a proud member. 💻 🗓️ Wednesday, 10 June 2026 ⏰ 09:00-11:50 AM UTC+8 (Manila time) 📍 Room 403, University of the Philippines, BGC What happens when content moderation system

This Friday, Meta will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs. Mark Zuckerberg's company said that this is due to low opt-in rates. It is true that Instagram was never built for private communications, but for activists, grassroots organisers, queer support networks, mutual aid groups, and community campaigns, Instagram IS the infrastructure. Telling people to "just move to Signal" ignores the fact that you cannot move a decade of community building overnight. The pe