YouTube announced on Thursday that it is taking steps to ban misinformation about abortion, nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court denied the federal right to voluntary termination of pregnancy.

“Starting today and over the next few weeks, we will remove content that instructs about unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about the dangers of abortion,” a spokesperson for the platform said. Said.

Google’s video service will add abortion content to its medical misinformation policies, which already prohibit false or misleading content about COVID or vaccines.

“We evaluate our policies”

He cited “claims that abortion is too risky or often causes cancer or infertility” as an example.

“We are constantly evaluating our policies and products as real-life events unfold,” the spokesperson said.

Since the Supreme Court dynamited the right to abortion (in effect in the United States since 1973), some conservative states have already restricted or banned access to abortion interventions.

Google, Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and others have been challenged several times on this by legislators and associations, who keep messages and offers of help online and, above all, urging women to be protected. Do not store too much personal data anymore.

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Platforms fear that the personal information of women who have abortions or those who assist them (online calls, Uber rides, etc.) will be used against them by prosecutors in conservative states that ban abortion.

Earlier in July, Google announced that users’ location data will be automatically deleted when visiting an abortion clinic.

Abortion Information Panel

Jen Fitzpatrick, vice president of the tech giant, also assured that her teams often “reject” requests from officials when they are “too thorough”.

YouTube also announced on Thursday that it will add an abortion information panel to “give people information from local and international health authorities.”