YouTube is cracking down on content about abortions that the video platform determines will mislead people about the procedure’s safety, expanding the company’s rules on medical misinformation.
The company’s announcement comes amid changes to laws governing abortion across the U.S. in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling last month that struck down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortion throughout the country.
“Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety under our medical misinformation policies,” YouTube said via Twitter on Thursday.