Instagram and Facebook have recently taken significant actions to limit the visibility of posts related to the abortion pill.
According to the New York Times, these platforms blurred, blocked, or removed posts from two abortion pill providers.
In addition, Instagram suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and made it harder for users to find these providers by hiding them from search results and recommendations.
The action to block or remove content related to abortion pills has intensified over the past two weeks, especially in the last two days.
Abortion pill providers mentioned that content from their accounts, or in some cases, their entire accounts, was no longer visible on Instagram.
Meanwhile, Meta confirmed and acknowledged that it had suspended the accounts and blurred posts related to abortion pill providers.
A spokesperson for Meta explained that the recent issues with abortion pill-related posts and accounts were due to rules that prohibit the sale of pharmaceutical drugs on their platforms without proper certification.
Meta has stated that it is making adjustments to its speech policies to reduce the number of posts that were mistakenly deleted.
The company added, “We’ve been quite clear in recent weeks that we want to allow more speech and reduce enforcement mistakes.”
Meta has been facing criticism after its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced significant changes to the company’s policies regarding online speech earlier this month.
Considering this, Zuckerberg promised to ease restrictions on online speech, which has raised concerns among experts studying misinformation and others.
