Some companies that sell online abortion pills have been suspended on the Instagram social media platform in Meta and their publications deleted on Instagram as well as on Meta Facebook.
According to The New York Times, Meta said that companies of which Aid Access, Just The Pill, Women Help Women and Hey Jane were part of what Meta called the “over-model” which included the suspension of the account and the blur, the withdrawal or blocking of stations.
Meta told Times that he had restored certain accounts this week. A supplier of abortion pills said his accounts had been assigned since November, Times reported. The providers also told the newspaper that the onset that had had an impact on their accounts and their posts is accelerating in the past two weeks.
Meta told Times that the problem had to do with its policies on the content of medication suppliers. Asked CNET, Meta spokesperson Erin Logan reiterated this.
“We prohibit the sale of pharmaceutical drugs on our platforms without appropriate certification, and our policies in this area have not changed,” she said. “These groups are experiencing a variety of problems – some due to the correct application, as well as the surfacins. But we have been quite clear in recent weeks that we want to authorize more speeches and reduce application errors – and we are committed to do this. “
Meta also said that the vagueness of publications was a technical problem involving Facebook cross content in Instagram, and that the reported publications are restored. Some messages said the company, have not raped Facebook policies.
The time of Meta’s mismanagement of accounts and publications arises while the company has moved its strategy and deleted the verification of facts on Facebook in Community notes favor. It is also closer aligned himself With the new President Donald Trump. But Meta says that the moderation of accounts belonging to the suppliers of abortion pills is not linked to changes in speaking policy on Facebook or other meta changes.
Trump, on the other hand, took the heels against social media societies, and he issuing An executive decree aimed Tuesday what he called the government’s censorship of social platforms. The president and others on the right accused the Biden administration of removing the speech on these platforms. In June, however, the The United States Supreme Court ruled In favor of the Biden administration in an alleged affair that she had undergone her contacts with social media companies. As note By NPR, judge Amy Creey Barrett declared in his opinion for the majority of the court that the parties who pursued the government had not proposed proof to support their assertions according to which the government has put pressure on social media companies To restrict their speech.
Aid Access, one of the suppliers of affected abortion pills and, the Times noted, one of the largest suppliers of abortion pills in the United States, has more than 53,000 subscribers on Instagram and more than 5 000 on Facebook. In an Instagram jobThe company said: “We know that some of our messages are always blurred or missing, and we work hard to solve this problem.”
