A recent, unsettling analysis by UltraViolet, a gender justice nonprofit, has pulled back the curtain on this shadowy world. Their report paints a stark picture: hundreds of accounts actively promoting and selling unregulated alternatives to legitimate GLP-1 medications. These aren’t just a few rogue actors; this is a significant, organized effort to capitalize on people’s desperation for weight loss.
A new report accuses TikTok of failing to appropriately moderate a growing "gray market" for GLP-1 weight loss drugs as they continue to surge in popularity. The content analysis, conducted by gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet, pinpointed hundreds of TikTok accounts promoting unregulated GLP-1 drugs, including GLP-1 alternatives advertised as "research-grade." Accounts often directed users off the platform to purchase drugs on WhatsApp, Discord, and Telegram.
Last year, UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew as “Unwanted in Miami.”
Last year, UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew (Tate) as “Unwanted in Miami.” They branded him a “sexual predator imported to the U.S. by President Donald Trump.”
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair over the weekend. The brothers were arrested on Saturday (July 18) on an extradition request from British authorities.
A news release from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew had been charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Protesters from UltraViolet Action set up outside Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference to call for Apple to take child sexual abuse imagery more seriously. Their flyers ask for the removal of Grok, X, and other nudify technology as well as to crack down on child sexual abuse material in iCloud.
At the Cupertino Apple Park campus, Apple has welcomed developers and members of the press to watch its WWDC opening keynote. But protesters from UltraViolet, a women's advocacy group, are also in attendance with a sign claiming "Apple is powered by child sexual abuse."
The brilliant folks at We Testify, Shout Your Abortion, Abortion Access Front, and Ultraviolet launched the Mife Stories Project—a medication abortion storytelling campaign to fight back against Republicans’ escalating efforts to ban mifepristone.
Elisa Batista, campaign director at the women’s rights group UltraViolet, said, “We believe E. Jean Carroll, just as a jury of her peers did.”
“Donald Trump has been caught bragging about assaulting women, and was found liable for sexual abuse,” said Batista. “The DOJ’s investigation is nothing more than another craven and corrupt attempt by Trump to silence survivors and his personal opponents.”
"In a few years, we hope this digital reality we live in, in which any person can be sexually deepfaked online without recourse, will seem unfathomable; we’re putting out this letter to make sure that vision becomes reality,” said Jenna Sherman, campaign director at UltraViolet.
The presence of Model Alliance and SOAR, alongside organizations like World Without Exploitation, Polaris Project, Rights4Girls, UltraViolet, NOW and Women’s March, underscored the growing movement to confront not just individual harms caused by Epstein and his associates, but the institutions, systems and decades-long inaction or incomplete action by law enforcement that enabled it.
Addressing the crowd in Washington, Arisha Hatch, executive director of social justice lobby group UltraViolet, said the group would launch a new initiative, the Epstein Accountability Project, in coming days, likely during the King’s visit.
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