• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    TikTok has briefly suspended the account of Hey Jane, a prominent telemedicine abortion service, four times without explanation. Instagram has suspended Mayday Health, a nonprofit that provides information about abortion pill access, without explanation as well. And the search engine Bing has erroneously flagged the website for Aid Access, a major seller of abortion pills online, as unsafe.

    Seems like someone is paying a lot of money to suppress access to information. Anyone have insight as to how to find out who specifically?

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      6 months ago

      Doesn’t necessarily need to be anyone with a lot of money, just a lot of people mass reporting things combined with automated systems.

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        That’s a good point. The fact that the accounts get restored means they passed human evaluation. Systems likely block the account by default, pending review.