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Groups helping Americans find abortion pills report Instagram ‘shadow-banning’
Organizations find posts censored, removed or made difficult to find in days after Trump return to White House
But the recent erasure and submerging of abortion-related content, so soon after Donald Trump’s return to power, has caused fear among some abortion rights supporters that a bigger crackdown could be on the horizon – and concerns that the Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg’s promise to protect “free expression” may not apply to all speech. “These groups encountered both correct enforcement and a variety of issues, including overenforcement and a technical bug, that resulted in the blurring of some posts. The organizations that post the content are frequently told they are violating platforms’ regulations around selling or providing goods online – even when their accounts have nothing to do with selling or providing abortion pills, according to Eklund, whoworked on a 2024 Amnesty International report about the removal of online info about abortion.
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