Once again, ‘freedom of speech’ doesn’t actually mean free speech,” said legislative researcher Allison Chapman.

Meta has come under fire for removing posts from abortion pill providers on Facebook and Instagram, blaming the incidents on "over-enforcement."

Social media company, Meta, has come under fire for blocking and suspending accounts that provide abortion access and information.

Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

Since President Donald Trump's election, groups sharing information about abortion pills say they have faced a surge in online

Since President Donald Trump's election win, groups sharing information about abortion pills say they have faced a surge in censorship on Meta's platforms. | TAG24

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are drawing criticism for blurring, blocking or removing two abortion pill providers’ posts, which has become more evident in recent days and is another escalation of the company’s rightward swing as President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.

In a town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company remains committed to diversity and free expression after unwinding DEI programs

To protest their boss Mark Zuckerberg and his recent company-wide changes, Meta employees are reportedly sneaking tampons back in men’s bathrooms in its offices. But it isn’t the only tech company seeing some resistance amid Trump 2.

Trump himself actually goes back and forth between boasting about his smarts (a “very stable genius,” he famously called himself) and his handsomeness (“you have never seen a body so beautiful,” he crowed last September). But his arc bends toward the cosmetic.

Various providers confirmed their accounts were hidden. In some cases, Facebook and Instagram got rid of the accounts and were no longer visible on the social media platforms,