Abortion Advocates Say Social Platforms Are Removing Posts in Apparent Overreach

Abortion Advocates Say Social Platforms Are Removing Posts in Apparent Overreach

(MedPage Today) -- Clinics, advocacy groups, and individuals who share abortion-related content online say they are seeing informational posts being taken down even if the posts don't clearly violate the platforms' policies. The groups, in Latin...

Crucial Information About Abortion Access Is Getting Censored on Social Media

In January, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg began kowtowing to President Trump, he said the company would get rid of its fact-checking program—yet disclosed little about what that would actually entail. But a new report by a digital rights watchdog group reveals that it probably did not entail ensuring that crucial information about abortion access wasn’t being censored.  Since the start of this year, various clinics, activists, and reproductive rig…

Facebook, TikTok and even LinkedIn are censoring abortion content even when it's just medical information, rights groups say

Electronic Frontier Foundation has collected close to 100 examples of content takedowns submitted by social media users that don't violate any policy.

Abortion Advocates Raise Alarm About Social Platforms Removing Posts in Apparent Overreach

Clinics, advocacy groups and individuals who share abortion-related content online say they are seeing informational posts being taken down even if the posts don’t clearly violate the platforms’ policies. The groups, in Latin America and the United States, are denouncing what they see as censorship even in places where abortion is legal. Companies like Meta claim their policies have not changed, and experts attribute the takedowns to over-enforc…