Facebook has deleted a women-only group in Pakistan with more than 300,000 members who used it to freely discuss taboo topics, its founder told AFP on Friday.
Soul Sisters Pakistan, created in 2013, acted as a support group for women who shared information about sex, divorce, and domestic violence — issues often deemed inappropriate to discuss publicly.
"This group means so much to women in Pakistan who now have nowhere to go to,” Kanwal Ahmed told AFP.
According to Kanwal, Facebook deleted the group late Wednesday after warning her of an unspecified "intellectual property violation” linked to a post.
"They didn’t even show which post it was,” said Ahmed, who was selected as a community leader by Facebook in 2018 thanks to the group’s success.