Article 5PJH2 Facebook and Google condemned over ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’

Facebook and Google condemned over ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’

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Alex Hern Technology editor
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Adverts promoting dangerous, unproven and unethical' procedure shown millions of times, study finds

Facebook has served abortion reversal" adverts 18.4m times since January 2020, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), promoting an unproven, unethical" and dangerous" procedure.

Google shows the adverts on more than four-fifths of searches related to abortion across a number of US cities, according to the CCDH research, targeted at search terms such as unwanted pregnancy" and abortion pill".

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