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Lady Freethinker (LFT) is a 501(c)3 non-profit animal advocacy media organization that investigates and exposes animal cruelty.

Overview
LFT was founded by Nina Jackel in 2013 with the mission of creating a compassionate world for all species. The organization reports on the widespread use of social media platforms Facebook and YouTube to promote animal cruelty, including organized, illegal dog-fighting and selling puppies into fighting rings. LFT also launched a petition in order to prompt Facebook to address the issue, to which a Facebook spokesperson released a statement to Newsweek, “We're grateful to Lady Freethinker for bringing these posts to our attention and we have contacted them so we can get the information we need to investigate this content”.

In 2017 a fundraising event was scheduled to take place in Taupiri, New Zealand which encouraged schoolchildren to kill possums, LFT started a petition against it which gathered 13,000 signatures that led to the canceling of the event.

In 2018 and 2019, Lady Freethinker created petitions and bus ads to raise awareness of the dog and cat meat trades in China and South Korea.

In 2018, the organization investigated illegal dog breeding in Chile and complained to the Office of the Public Prosecutor, leading to the rescue of 20 illegally chained dogs in Llay Llay, Chile.

In 2019, LFT published a report, The Deadly Underground World of Dogfighting on Facebook on the use of Facebook in order to promote dogfighting groups and content on the platform. The investigation took place from December 2018 through February, 2019, and discovered 160,563 Facebook users following 150 pages and 2,000 posts promoting dogfighting and trafficking of animals.