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“We’re particularly concerned when it seems like tech companies are developing products that censor certain information at the request of the government,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/meta-abortion-ai-chatbot-leak-teen-info-ban/

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information

Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

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aspragg

@eff Yes, that's terrible - but isn't the real tragedy that Meta aren't blocking their chatbot from providing discussion-shaped blobs of text resembling medical advice to anyone at all?

*Do not rely on chatbots for medical advice*

https://axbom.me/notice/B3lwJo0IzoAceB7pLc

Or for anything important at all, really.

Per Axbom (@[email protected])

I can not emphasise this enough. Do not use chatbots for medical advice. And no, it does not matter if the product is named something something "health". « In 51.6% of cases where someone needed ...