Deja Fox
speaker
90 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 4 Jul
Deja Fox’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My world has opened up in unimaginable ways because of social media, both good and bad.
And in the nearly decade since, it's made possible things I couldn't have even imagined.
But I've seen the dark side of insidious algorithms and the ways that companies profit from them.
Like the day in 2021 when a stranger labeled me the enemy.
Four days later, hundreds of thousands of impressions, 60,000 likes, 4,000 retweets, 600 replies later, and this cybermob had filled my DMs and comments across all social media platforms.
And now I need you to be in my shoes for a second.
20 years old, isolated by an ongoing pandemic, and to reach for your phone first thing in the morning because it's also your alarm.
To wake up to threats to your personal safety and information.
Have a notification center full of comments about how you look and speculation on an identity that you yourself are only just coming to build.
Social media platforms didn't have a solution for the hate that they facilitated, but young people in my community did.
Maya and I met on Instagram through Gen Z Girl Gang.
That's the digital collective I founded out of my dorm in 2019.
And ever since, we've been committed to redefining the practice of sisterhood in digital spaces.
In 2021, we had never met in real life.
But when I needed her, she was there.
She sent me a text, a lifeline.
If I can be honest with you, send me your passwords.
She went in and deleted hateful comments and DMs before I could ever even see them, knowing that otherwise I would be forced to open, experience and clear each and every one alone.
We deserve respect for our rights, privacy and safety by design, not as an afterthought.
and clear protections against hate and harassment that are informed by our experiences, standing up for ourselves and our friends.
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