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Politics
Jon Skolnik

Facebook's post-Roe censorship

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg | US Supreme Court Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta, have begun mass-deleting posts that provide information about accessing abortion pills in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established America's constitutional right to abortion.

Such content removals, first reported by Vice and the Associated Press, occurred immediately after the ruling was handed down. Much of the material in question reportedly contained information about how to obtain abortion pills by mail without breaking state laws. 

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