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Doctors and advocates tackle a spike of abortion misinformation – in Spanish

Misinformation about abortion targeting Latinas is spreading online. (Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61)

Just after news leaked in May that the Supreme Court planned to overturn Roe v. Wade, Liz Lebrón and her colleagues noticed something unusual: a spike in false and misleading information on abortion being shared in Spanish on social media.

"Abortion was not really on our radar," says Lebrón, who oversees research for the Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab. "Then after the leak it started popping up, and it has not slowed down."

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