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Three female nominees for Female Binance Award are blocked from Instagram
The only woman nominated for the Binance Influencer Awards recently was Rachel Siegel, also known as CryptoFinally. She claims that, following criticism of women's underrepresentation in the Blockchain sector, she and two fellow female influencers were platformed from Instagram. TechWithCatalina and GirlGoneCrypto are the other women allegedly targeted.
Questioning the status quo
Siegel told Cointelegraph she was extremely vocal in cryptography about the sub-representation of women. She said she was the only woman out of 25 nominees:
“I have been very local about the fact that there is a gender disparity in the cryptocurrency community and people are not happy with that. They have never been happy with talking about feminist values. So what we know is that the people who were removed were me, GirlGoneCrypto <...> and <...> TechWithCatalina.”
Last was the only female candidate in the Spanish Binance Awards. Both women are known to work with Siegel.
The Instagram Trio may be reported individually or unifiedly to Instagram users that did not agree with or felnish threatened by requests for inclusion. Once enough users report to a user, their accounts are usually suspended until manual review is completed.
Nominee selection
Apparently, both the community and the Binance team have determined the nominees for the Binance Influencer Awards. The vote by the community accounted for 60% of the weight with the remaining 40% of the group.
