"Thanks to nearly 100 submissions from educators, advocates, clinics, researchers, and individuals around the world, we confirmed what many already suspected: this speech is being removed, restricted, and silenced by platforms at an alarming rate. Together, our findings paint a clear picture of censorship in action: platforms' moderation systems are not only broken, but are actively harming those seeking and sharing vital reproductive health information."
"The most common reason Meta gave for removing abortion-related content was that it violated policies on Restricted Goods and Services, which prohibit any "attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for pharmaceutical drugs." But most of the content submitted simply provided factual, educational information that clearly did not violate those rules. As we saw in the M+A Hotline 's case, this kind of misclassification deprives patients, advocates, and researchers of reliable information,"
Nearly 100 submissions from educators, advocates, clinics, researchers, and individuals documented widespread removal, restriction, and silencing of abortion-related content by social media platforms. Submissions revealed systemic over-enforcement, vague and convoluted policies, arbitrary takedowns, sudden account bans, and ignored appeals, often applied to posts that did not violate stated rules. Meta frequently misclassified factual, educational reproductive health information under Restricted Goods and Services and removed it. Misclassification and opaque moderation deprive patients and communities of reliable information, chill providers and researchers, and actively harm access to vital reproductive health care and support.
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