“I was in a constant state of fear and panic wondering if my pictures were there too, and when will this reach my parents.” “I woke up to my friends’ and people I know’s pictures all over Facebook with the most horrible and homophobic captions,” a 19-year-old gay man living in Morocco told PinkNews. Pictures of gay men in Morocco circulate on Facebook. Screenshots of messages received this week by a gay man in Morocco on a gay dating app. Other messages sent to gay men on dating apps, from people who claimed to be women, read: “You got caught, f****t”, “I’ll deal with you later” and “I’m just trying to find all the f****ts in my neighbourhood”. “If I catch you, I’ll cut your throat,” one message read. Messages sent to gay men on dating apps, from people who had tracked them down using Moussa’s instructions, were extremely homophobic and threatened violence. This week, pictures of gay men began circulating in closed Facebook groups, with homophobic captions.Īnd in a later Instagram Live, Moussa held up her phone and showed screenshots her followers had taken of gay men’s dating app profiles ( PinkNews has seen these screenshots but is not republishing them here due to safety concerns for the men). Naofal Moussa did not explicitly tell her followers to use the information she shared about gay dating apps to hunt down and out gay men.īut that is exactly what happened. “Everyone.” Screenshot from Naofal Moussa’s Instagram Live. It could show you your cousin, your uncle.
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It could show you your neighbour from next door. “It could even show you your husband, your son.