NEW YORK, November 14, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Facebook must start cracking down on “anti-abortion fake news,” according to an opinion piece in Friday’s online edition of the The New York Times.
British journalist Rossalyn Warren raised a rallying cry to abortion advocates to lobby Facebook to black out sites like LifeNews and Live Action, which she accused of producing “vast amounts of misinformation” — such as the correlation between abortion and breast cancer.
Indeed, articles from these sites are “more shared” on Facebook than “evidence-based, credible articles about abortion from reputable news outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post,” she complained.
According to Warren, whose work has appeared in the Guardian and Buzzfeed, the problem is that Facebook’s criteria to assess what’s fake news doesn’t generally apply to pro-life sites.
Facebook targets sites that mimic existing sites, or are financially motivated. But “anti-abortion” sites are neither, as they publish their own content, and are motivated not by profit but ideology, Warren wrote.
Moreover, Facebook only started to crack down on fake sites after “intense scrutiny” and public pressure following the last U.S. election, and it’s only going after “the worst of the worst,
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