this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
92 points (95.1% liked)
Technology
72932 readers
3239 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Democratic representatives on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee said the misinformation and disinformation being spread online was putting people’s health at risk.
“As the legal status of abortion changes across the country and a number of state legislatures impose drastic new restrictions on health care choices, people seeking information about abortion care and services turn to [Facebook, Instagram, and X] for accurate and reliable information—not propaganda,” the lawmakers stated in the letter.
“Yet individuals and groups that are anti-choice are promoting dangerously inaccurate medical information and false content about abortion online.”
They noted posts and advertisements for products that claimed to be able to reverse chemical abortions, something the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said is “unproven and unethical.”
The House Democrats pointed to an apparent double standard when it came to posts relating to abortion on Musk’s platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The lawmakers requested that Musk and Zuckerberg take action to tamp down the misinformation and also asked that a briefing be provided to Oversight Committee staffers.
The original article contains 294 words, the summary contains 174 words. Saved 41%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!