UltraViolet, as well as other gender justice, tech accountability, and pro-democracy organizations, have launched a joint campaign in response. In a petition with over 29,000 signatures at the time of this writing, they call on Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri to stop censoring posts about the Cornell case.
The assembly outside MoMA also included Epstein survivors and members of We Are UltraViolet and the research initiative Time & Memory Project. Nicole Regalado, vice president of campaigns at We Are UltraViolet, told Hyperallergic, “By serving on MoMA’s board, whether it’s intentional or not, MoMA is helping to sanitize Leon Black’s reputation.”
Black became the chairman of MoMA’s board in 2018 and stepped down in 2021 amid a call for his removal by more than 150 artists, though he remained a trustee.
Late yesterday we got word that several groups — including reps from MoveOn.org, CREDO Action and UltraViolet — are congregating at Komen’s LBJ HQ at noon today to drop off “petitions signed by nearly 850,000 people demanding that Komen not let anti-choice extremists get in the way of funding life-saving breast health care services for women.”
“Komen’s CEO, Nancy Brinker, has demonstrated a pattern of deliberately lying to the public about the facts about Komen’s decision to defund PP,” the Internet watchdog group Ultraviolet wrote in a statement to Yahoo! Shine.
Last week, Apple’s Siri for iPhone 4S ignited a firestorm when the personal assistant failed to locate local abortion clinics.
Last week’s abortion “glitch” was the latest in a series of embarrassments for Apple’s bot. Apple apologized(-ish) for the issue, but the half-hearted statement and unchanged software has yet to quell the anger. The criticisms still continue via petitions , including one at SignOn.org that got over 30,000 signatures in 48 hours, petition author Nita Chaudhary told CBS News. Unfortunately, the abortion-query problem is just a micro representation of a macro problem: Siri just doesn’t work that well.
Last week a firestorm broke out over the iPhone 4S’s personal assistant Siri’s omission of abortion clinics.
In the past 24 hours, more than 27,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple to stop iPhone voice assistant Siri from directing women to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” when they ask where to get an abortion.
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