Meta, Google accused of 'censorship' for blocking women's health ads but allowing erectile dysfunction campaigns
Source: The Independent
Saturday 08 March 2025 14:48 EST
Online platforms are blocking posts and adverts about women’s health while allowing posts about erectile dysfunction, it has been claimed. A group of femtech companies – businesses involved in technology products addressing women’s health and wellbeing issues – have accused Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, along with LinkedIn, Google and Amazon, of “systemic bias and discrimination” against women’s health content.
They said the platforms have given “vague and inconsistent” reasons for repeatedly blocking, removing and restricting content about women’s health, including posts on menopause, endometriosis and infertility.
This week, six UK and European companies have issued formal complaints about the platforms to the European Commission, which regulates social media sites and search engines under the Digital Services Act. They have requested it investigates the platforms’ moderation polices – which they say appear to be “biased” against women – and find out why women’s health content is being removed or restricted.
“We have evidence [of] multiple cases where medically accurate, expert-led content has been blocked or labelled as ‘adult content’ or ‘political’,” said co-founders of the anti-censorship campaign group CensHERship, Clio Wood and Anna O’Sullivan. “We can’t improve women’s health if we can’t talk about our bodies using anatomically-correct language.”
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/meta-google-sexist-adverts-iwd-b2711249.html
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because women aren't important 🙄 
Just another example of white male excellence 
