by Piyush Mathur
The animal-justice organisation Lady Freethinker (LFT) has released its report on animal-abuse videos that were available on social media in the US between May 1 and June 30, 2026.
‘The goal was to find content depicting human-caused cruelty to animals’, according to the report.
The research discovered as many 1657 active links depicting human-caused cruelty to animals on accounts hosted by Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube.
Of those 1657 links, LFT was able to get 1123 links deactivated or inaccessible by reporting them to the social-media companies, but 534 were found to have remained active even as of September 18, 2026. This is the link to the report’s freely downloadable pdf file:
https://ladyfreethinker.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-Report-Animal-Cruelty-Goes-Viral.pdf
This 21-page document includes dozens of screenshots related to the animal-abuse social-media links that LFT had discovered and reported; it also provides clear descriptions, statistics, and illustrations associated with such videos. The report was circulated on November 4, 2026, by LFT’s founding president, Nina Jackel on its listserv.
The document includes a link to LFT’s online form that one could use to report social-media-based abuse of non-human living beings:
https://form.jotform.com/Lady_Freethinker/report-social-media-cruelty
LFT is located in Los Angeles, California; founded in 2013, it is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN # 47-4213802, as per its website.
Further information about the organisation’s registration details can be accessed via this link:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/474213802