Facebook and Tiktok and LinkedIn are controlling the content of miscarriage even when it is only a medical advertisement

Groups, In Latin America The United States condemns what they see censorship even in places where abortion is legal. Companies like Meta claim that their policies have not changed, and experts attribute the removal of excessive implementation at a time when social media platforms reduce moderate content in favor of artificial intelligence systems that struggle with the context and the spoiling and gray areas.

But abortion advocates say that the removals have a chilling effect even if they are reversed later, and the mobility of complex appeals systems often is difficult, if not impossible.

For several months, Frontier Electronic Group Group Digital is collecting examples of social media users who have seen their publications related to abortion or account suspension.

“The aim of this was to better understand the problem, affected, and with any consequences. It is clear, then as soon as we have a better understanding of directions, we hope to draw attention to the issue, demand accountability and increase transparency in moderation practices, and eventually, help to stop these platforms from controlling this basic information, sometimes, Jennifer Busoville is a person who reserves employee.

The organization says it has received approximately 100, an example of content removal from abortion providers, invitation groups and individuals on identification platforms such as Instagram Facebook, as well as tiktok and even LinkedIn.

It is not clear whether the removal operations are increasing or spreading more about miscarriage, especially abortion drugs such as MivePristone, since The Supreme Court canceled the ROE V. Wade in 2022.

“I would like to say that there is a wave of taking shortly after the elections that were noticeable enough to result in multiple news stories. But again, it is not very easy to measure it.”

Berina Miller, a Tijok creator who is often published about abortion and works in the field of reproductive health care, said she made a video to connect a pill pack of non -profit Carvim – as she talked about what was in the package and discussed the process of taking birth control pills at home.

I posted the video in December. It was the case for at least a week before removing Tiktok, saying that it violates the standards of the platform community.

“Tiktok has an appeal,” Miller said. “So I started sending an email to them, in an attempt to contact a person even to get an explanation like, how the community’s guidance with a media video. It took months to call someone and I was not even (thought) was a really person. They have sent an automatic message for months.”

In the end, the video was restored in May without any explanation.

“I work in public health in my country from 9 to 5 and see a real repression of public health information and the deployment of this information, especially in the field of reproductive health. People are afraid,” Miller said. “It is really important to have this carefully accurate information so that they are not afraid and they can actually access the health care they need.”

Tiktok is generally not prohibited to share information about miscarriage or abortion medications, however it regulates medicines in sale and marketing, including miscarriage and prohibits the wrong information that may harm people.

On Facebook, the Red River ladies clinic in MOURHEAD, Minnesota, published a post saying that it provides surgical abortion and treatment after I heard from a patient who did not know that he was providing drug abortion. The post included a picture of Mivipriston. When the clinic tried to turn the post into an advertisement, its account was suspended. The clinic says that since it does not provide remote services, it has not tried to sell the medicine. The clinic appealed the decision and won the opposite, but the account was suspended again after a short period. In the end, the clinic managed to solve the problem with a communication in Meta.

“We did not try to sell drugs. We only knew our followers of a service, a legal service that we provide. Therefore, it is worrisome, as you know, that it has been marked that it was not suitable for their standards,” said clinic director Tami Kromnker. “To have a private company like Meta only with political winds and saying, we do not agree with this, so we will report this and close it, very worrying.”

Mita said that her policies and enforcement regarding the content of the abortion related to the drugs were not changed and were not affected by the changes announced in January, which included the end of the fact -examination program.

“We allow participants and ads that enhance health care services such as abortion, as well as discussion and discussion about them, as long as they follow our policies – and give people the opportunity to resume decisions if we think we have sinned,” the company said in a statement.

In late January, the Research Research Center at the University of Emori in the southeast, or RISE, was published, published on Instagram on MifePristone, which described Mai and why it matters. In March, her account was suspended. Then the organization appealed the decision, but the appeal was rejected and its account was permanently deleted. This decision was reversed later after they managed to communicate with someone in Meta. Once the account is restored, it became clear that the comment was because it was marked that he was trying to “buy, sell, strengthen or exchange illegal or restricted drugs.”

“When I am concerned (however) with the increase in social media, we have also seen an increased increase in wrong information and misinformation on social media platforms on many health issues,” said Sarah Reid, director of the RISE research translation and assistant professor at Emory University. “One of the main goals through our communications and through our social media is to enhance the exact information based on reproductive health care, including miscarriage.”

Laura Edleson, professor of computer science at the University of North Eston, said that at the end of the day, while people love to discuss the policies of platforms and what policies should be, what matters is “experiences of participation in participating in information and information, and they can get them.”

“This is just a policy that is not well implemented. This is in itself not all that is surprising because we know that Meta greatly reduced spending on moderate content efforts,” said Edleson. “There are fewer people who spend time maintaining automatic models. Thus, the mysterious approach to the border is at risk of decline.”