YouTube announced on Thursday a series of measures to ban fake news related to abortions, a month after the revocation of this right by the Supreme Court in the United States.

"We will remove content that instructs on unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about the dangers of" abortions, a spokeswoman said.

The platform will thus add content on voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) to its regulations on medical misinformation, which already prohibits false or misleading content on Covid-19 or vaccines.

“Statements that abortions are very risky or often cause infertility or cancer” will be banned.

YouTube will begin removing misleading videos about abortion in response to falsehoods being spread about the procedure that is being banned or restricted across a broad swath of the US https://t.co/ErO2YXAZ15

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 21, 2022


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Protect women and their rights

Since the Supreme Court dynamited the right to abortion, guaranteed in the United States since 1973, several conservative states have already restricted or prohibited it.

Google, Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and others have since been challenged on this subject by elected officials and associations, who have called on them to protect women's rights by ensuring the visibility of messages and offers of help and by not keeping personal data that could compromise them.

The platforms fear that the personal information of women who have had an abortion or of the people who have helped them will be retained by prosecutors for prosecution.

In early July, Google announced that users' location data would be automatically deleted when visiting a clinic specializing in abortions.

Jen Fitzpatrick, vice-president of Google, assured that her teams used to "reject" requests from the authorities "when they are too extensive".

For its part, YouTube specified that an information panel would be added on abortions, to “provide people with context from local and international health authorities”.

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