Press Highlights

CIJ’s work has led to more than 100 press articles and media appearances illuminating ad equality. Below is a sampling:

07-17-23

Meta rejected scores of women’s health ads. Democrats want answers.

1-11-22

Why Did Facebook Reject These Ads?

8-15-23

Meta criticized for making reproductive health an R-rated issue

9-1-23

Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok

9-7-23

Advertising erectile dysfunction pills? No problem. Breast health? Try again

1-21-22

Report: Facebook Rejected Ads Focused on Women’s Sexual Health

2-5-22

Sexual wellness startups warn that outdated rules could hurt an industry that's poised to blow up in 2022

7-17-23

Women’s Health Ads Are Still Being Censored; The Center For Intimacy Justice Takes Action With FTC Complaint

7-17-23

Meta Under Fire for Rejecting Sexual Health Ads

6-25-19

Vaginas Deserve Giant Ads, Too

1-26-21

Facebook rejected ads from 60 companies for women’s sexual health

2-16-22

Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone

1-19-22

The Latest Women’s Health Issue to Finally Get Its Due? Incontinence

1-11-22

60 companies say Facebook unfairly rejected their ads for women's health products

5-13-22

Sexual Wellness App Emjoy Gets Suspended from Google Play

6-10-22

Why are women’s health ads getting rejected?

7-22-22

Why do women’s healthcare ads still have to be ‘taboo-busting’?

8-22-22

Instagram, nudes and Tommy Lee: Why the feminist shadow-banning fight is far from over

9-8-22

Data/Body: Corpus and the Cloud Empire of our Lives

9-17-22

British breastfeeding clothing firm has lost thousands after being hit by Facebook’s no-nudity rule

2-7-23

Does size really matter? $80bn sextech market still too taboo for VCs

10-18-22

Meta Rewrites Its Global Ads Policy and Allows Sexual Health, Wellness, and Reproductive Health Ads

4-13-23

Sexual Health and Wellness Ads Face Discrimination: Clinic Client CIJ Urges the FTC to Take Action

12-22-23

Social Media Companies Are Still Banning Ads for Sex Toys

1-20-23

Opinion: On reproductive health in 2023 — stay the course, it’s working

1-23-23

Sexual Health And Wellness Companies Continue To Face Digital Advertising Challenges

1-3-23

Women’s Health Expert Panel Addresses Challenges, Opportunities In Post-Roe Era

2-12-23

What Is FemTech And How Is It Censored

3-20-23

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

6-27-23

Meta blocks The Shaping Room ads for adult content

9-7-23

‘Account Restricted’: Sex-ed content creators fight shadowbans on social media sites

7-17-23

Center for Intimacy Justice and US Senators Call on FTC to Investigate Meta’s Rejection of Women’s Sexual Health Ads

7-21-23

Meta faces FTC complaint over blocking of women's sexual health ads

3-15-22

"The Algorithm" and Women's Sexual Wellness with Jackie Rotman

1-11-22

Facebook’s ad-blocking for health products and services could have a gender bias, research suggests

1-11-22

Center for Intimacy Justice report finds Facebook censors women’s health ads

1-14-22

Did Facebook Apply Double Standards to Ads for Women’s Health Products?

1-12-22

Facebook and Instagram accused of rejecting women's health ads

2-9-22

Challenging Inequities In Women’s Sexual Health Advertising with Jackie Rotman of Center for Intimacy Justice

4-3-22

When censorship articles get censored

5-1-22

How Europe’s healthtech startups are fighting Big Tech’s censorship rules

2-1-22

Marketing Sexual Health Solutions in Times of Ad Bans and Stigmatization: An Interview with wisp’s Head of Brand Jennifer Dwork

6-29-19

People talk about sexual health more than ever. But a controversy over sex toy ads shows women’s pleasure remains taboo.

11-4-22

The (censor)ship has sailed: Meta changes its sexual health content policy