After losing 211,000 followers to platform suppression, this Baltimore publisher turned his pain into doctoral research—and now a Congresswoman is fighting the same battle in Washington
(BALTIMORE – December 23, 2025) – When Pittsburgh Congresswoman Summer Lee declared this week that “discrimination is illegal when it’s done by a person, and it should be just as illegal when it’s done by an algorithm,” I felt something I haven’t experienced in years of fighting platform suppression: hope backed by power.
Lee’s reintroduction of the Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act isn’t just another piece of legislation. For those of us running independent Black-owned media outlets, it’s a potential lifeline against what I’ve come to call “algorithmic precarity”—the systematic ways social media platforms deploy carceral tactics against publishers serving Black communities…