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Yelp will flag crisis pregnancy centers listings to avoid misleading abortion seekers

Following the Supreme Court docket’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade, Yelp introduced Tuesday that it might add a brand new shopper discover to disaster being pregnant facilities to raised distinguish them from clinics that present abortion companies.

Beginning at present, Yelp’s new notices will seem on the high of faith-based and non-faith-based disaster being pregnant heart listings within the app, as first reported by Axios. The brand new function prominently shows an alert notifying customers that these facilities “sometimes present restricted medical companies and should not have licensed medical professionals onsite.”

Since 2018, Yelp says it has recategorized “hundreds” of enterprise listings that will mislead abortion seekers looking for care on-line. Disaster being pregnant facilities typically market themselves as “clinics” on-line to pregnant folks searching for abortion care. Whereas a few of these disaster facilities present restricted medical companies (like STI testing), usually, their major purpose is to discourage folks from terminating a being pregnant.

“Disaster being pregnant facilities don’t provide abortion companies, and it’s been proven that many present deceptive data in an try to steer folks searching for abortion care to different choices,” Noorie Malik, Yelp’s vice chairman of consumer operations, wrote in a Tuesday weblog put up. “With this new shopper discover we’re aiming to additional shield customers from the potential of being misled or confused.”

Yelp’s new shopper discover alerts customers to disaster being pregnant facilities that will not present abortion care.
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Yelp’s announcement comes after the Supreme Court docket’s June reversal of Roe v. Wade, successfully banning the long-standing federal proper to abortion. Following the choice, tech firms like Google introduced new efforts to fight abortion-related misinformation on-line. In July, YouTube stated it might take away “directions for unsafe abortion strategies.” TikTok rolled out the same coverage shortly after.

However these moderation insurance policies don’t change firms’ potential to guard consumer knowledge. Earlier this month, Motherboard reported that Fb turned over personal messages that later incriminated a Nebraska mom and daughter for performing an unlawful abortion. That case confirmed warnings from abortion and privateness specialists who’ve sounded the alarms for years that ongoing digital surveillance on social media may help within the criminalization of abortion care.

In its Tuesday weblog put up, Yelp stated that its disaster being pregnant heart audits are ongoing. “We’ve continued to often audit and examine these companies — in 2022 alone, now we have proactively evaluated almost 33,500 U.S. enterprise pages and recategorized almost 470 enterprise pages as Disaster Being pregnant Facilities or Religion-based Disaster Being pregnant Facilities (as of August 8, 2022),” Malik stated.

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