Want to Protect Your Data From Facebook? These Drag Queens Have Some Advice.

Midday on WNYC | Apr 10, 2018

The pressure for Facebook to account for what it does with user data has been growing for years. In 2014, one group started to raise awareness about this with the #MyNameIs campaign, which challenges Facebook’s policies on using real names. #MyNameIs activists Lil Miss Hot Mess, a drag queen and artist, and Dottie Lux, creator of Red Hots Burlesque, a queer burlesque and cabaret, discuss their opinion pieces for WIRED, “A Drag Queen’s Guide to Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook By Breaking The Rules” and “Facebook’s Hate Speech Policies Censor Marginalized Users."

This segment is hosted by Kai Wright.

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