APA Member, MSI Reproductive Choices and the Centre for Countering Digital Hate finds that Meta and Google are blocking access to accurate information on abortion and wider reproductive healthcare in countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Citing examples from MSI’s programmes in Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Vietnam, the reports shows that Meta – the platform behind Facebook and Instagram – and Google are censoring accurate information on sexual and reproductive health and rights, while promoting anti-choice misinformation across the platforms.
Analysis of Meta’s Ad Library in Ghana and Mexico found that the company profited from anti-abortion ads promoting false or misleading claims, which were seen up to 1 million times across both countries between 2019 and 2024.
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