YouTube Says It Will Remove ‘Abortion Misinformation’ Videos

The platform tweeted that it will monitor for content that promotes unsafe methods

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YouTube will unpublish videos that feature abortion misinformation after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last month.

In a Twitter thread, YouTube outlined that it would remove “content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety under our medical misinformation policies.” 

“Like all of our policies on health/medical topics, we rely on published guidance from health authorities,” the thread continued.

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