[teddyh]

> over the past several years,

Not, say, in the past few months?

> there has been a sharp increase in reports of social media platforms removing or suppressing abortion-related content, even when no law requires platforms to do so

What platforms? What abortion-related content?

[hn_acker]

> What platforms? What abortion-related content?

Did you try skimming some of the references on the linked page?

> Reporting and Research

> Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts (New York Times)

> TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content (WIRED)

> Obstacles to Autonomy: Post-Roe Removal of Abortion Information Online (Amnesty International

There's also a reference to a site called Repro Uncensored [2]. Another click brought me to "Amnesty International USA x Plan C x WFD: How Abortion Information is Restricted Online" [3].

[1] https://www.eff.org/pages/stop-censoring-abortion

[2] https://www.reprouncensored.org/

[3] https://www.reprouncensored.org/research/abortion-restricted

[teddyh]

> Did you try skimming some of the references on the linked page?

I honestly missed them. So, it seems to be TikTok and Facebook (including Instagram) removing abortion-related things (not very precisely defined) after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Which seems on its face somewhat reasonable; if something is no longer universally legal in all states, it might be categorized in with other things not nationally legal, and treated the same.