Instagram and Facebook have recently been blurred, blocked or removed from two abortion pills suppliers. Instagram has also suspended the accounts of several abortion pills suppliers and hiding the suppliers to appear in search and recommendations.
These steps have increased in the last two weeks and were especially noticeable in the last two days, the abortion pill suppliers said. Content from their accounts – or in some cases, their entire accounts – were no longer visible on Instagram.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta confirmed some account suspension and blurred posts. The company has recovered some accounts and posts on Thursday after the New York Times asked about these steps.
Meta has been under the Meta Investigation since its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Changes in the company’s speech policies Early this month. Mr. Zuckerberg Promise to loose the restrictions In online speech, incorrect information creates anxiety among researchers and others that these changes can increase hateful speech and have other harmful effects.
Meta said that restraint of abortion-centric accounts is not related to the change in speech policies. However, the time of the events raised questions about whether the company was truly relaxing lecture restrictions and another example of its challenges in the application of content.
A Meta spokesperson blamed for some recent events associated with abortion pill-related posts and accounts that prohibit the sale of pharmaceutical drugs on its platforms without appropriate credentials. The company also describes some events as “extra enforcement”.
Meta, which is before Posts suppressed from abortion suppliersThere is D It was partially changing its speech principles to reduce the number of posts incorrectly down.
“We have become quite clear in recent weeks that we want to give further speech and reduce the mistakes of application,” Meta said in a statement.
Staff Attorney Lisa Femia of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that the Supreme Court reversed Row vs. Wade in 2022, “There is a huge enthusiasm for reproductive healthcare and especially the social media platforms that removal of abortion pills. This is an ongoing, increasingly, on the health care and online health care.” The real threat to the people who receive directions ”” “
Aid access, one of the largest abortion pills suppliers in the United States, said that some posts have been moved to his Facebook account and have blossomed into his Instagram account since November, more posts have been blurred in recent days. Abortion Pill Service has said that it has been blocked from access to his Facebook account since November and its Instagram account was postponed last week, though it was recovered.
Instagram accounts were also postponed by women’s assistance in recent days and other abortion pills suppliers, including cable pills. Suppliers said that the reasons for their suspension were to “their accounts do not follow the quality of our community in guns, drugs and other limited products.” Two accounts were recovered on Thursday.
Hey Jane’s Instagram account is another abortion pill suppliers, recently disappeared in the search of Instagram, said Rebecca Davis, who led the marketing of Hey Jane. He said something similar happened until the meta was the opposite in 2023.
“We know from the beginning that this repression actively prevents Haye Jane from reaching out to people who seek health care in timely,” Mrs. Davis said. “We are incredibly disappointed to see how the platform is restricting our free speech to Meta about free speech.”
The Food and Drug Administration Allows telehews to write online and supply the prescription drugs that produce abortion, myphrostone and misprostol. There are twelve states Forbidden abortion And many more mail-order pills have been pregnant limits or restrictions. However, suppliers in the states that are legal in the states are mailing pills in the states with restrictions Under the Law of Sold To protect them.
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