Facebook and Instagram immediately began removing posts from people offering to mail abortion pills to women who need them.
Almost immediately, Facebook and Instagram began removing some of these posts and banning the accounts from posting them, as reported by AP and Vice.
On Monday, an AP reporter tested this by posting ‘If you send me your address, I’ll send you abortion pills’ and the post was deleted within a minute.
The Facebook account was immediately given “warning” status for violating the “weapons, animals and other regulated goods” standards.
But when the AP reporter posted the exact same message, but swapped the words “abortion pills” for “a gun” or “weed,” the message remained intact and was not considered a violation.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed in a tweet that the posts offering abortion pills violate Meta’s policy against allowing individuals to donate or sell medicines on its platform†
‘Content discussing the affordability and accessibility of prescription medicines is allowed. We have identified and are correcting some instances of incorrect enforcement,” Stone tweeted.
Unlike, messages misinformation by pro-life groups have not been removed, despite people reporting them.
Meta pointed to the same statement when asked how it planned to deal with the complexities of content moderation in the wake of the destruction of Roe v Wade in the US.
Meanwhile, the company’s policy “allows firearms stores and online retailers to promote items available for sale” of its services and allows discussions about the sale of firearms and firearms parts in stores or by online retailers, while “advocating changes.” in firearms regulations’.
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