54 Global News Post #3
https://www-pressreader-com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/hong-kong/south-china-morning-post-6150/20230326/281865827722717/textview published by the Associated Press
[Screenshot of Grindr’s current in app warning for Egyptian users in Arabic. (2023)]
Translated as: “Egypt is arresting LGBT people and police may be posing as LGBT on social media to entrap you. Please be careful about arranging meetings with people you do not know, and be careful posting anything that might reveal your identity.”
@Grindr warning Arab users about police entrapping #gay men in #Egypt pic.twitter.com/0DCGAWS7PR
— georges azzi (@G_azzi) September 25, 2014
The article shares an update from Grindr the dating and social media app for members of the LGBTQIA+ community as they have begun to issue a nationwide warning for its users in Egypt. The press release from Grindr was published by the Associated Press and republished in the South China Morning Post. The information was taken from both Grindr as well as information from anonymous sources in Egypt who received the warning on their apps, which confirms the actions of the company.
The article discussed the recent warning put out by Grindr to its users in Egypt that comes in response to a report of increased arrests of members of the LGBTQIA+ community in Egypt by police for “public indecency”. The article notes that homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt but police have used charges such as debauchery and violating public decency in order to keep arrests of non heterosexual and gender nonconforming people at a constant. This recent update with a visible warning from the app comes as rights groups have reported increases in cases involving police using social media to search and track members of the LGBTQIA+ community to crack down on. Also included in the article is an account of lawsuits being pushed against Grindr as they have been suspected of selling their user data to third-party sources, which may be a larger part of the problem facing the lives of its users.
The Article comes from the web copy of the South China Morning Post. The section is for the world column of the news, which takes a couple of pages. Most of the articles do not mix together but all cover a wide range of internationally relevant news stories. What cannot be seen from the article or its section is the trend in coverage over Egypt and its ongoing issue of over jailing and police crackdown not only of LGBTQIA+ members but of any political opponents of the government, who number in the tens of to hundreds of thousands of people.