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(LifeSiteNews) — Last week, social media giant YouTube declared it was taking action against so-called “misinformation” regarding abortion, promising to crack down on content that “promotes false claims about abortion safety” and add “context” labels from “authoritative sources.”
The move seems to suggest that the Big Tech company is angling to use the same sort of spurious “context” and “fact-checking” labels and censorship tactics employed during the COVID-19 pandemic to begin directing the political discourse on abortion.
READ: YouTube announces crackdown on so-called abortion ‘misinformation’ likely to affect pro-life efforts
“Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety under our medical misinformation policies,” YouTube said in a July 21 statement.
1/ Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about
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