A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.
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A 17 year-old Nebraska girl is being tried as an adult on allegations that she had an abortion, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant. This is a horrifying new precedent and direct consequence of the Dobbs decision. The girl and her mother were charged in July with allegedly removing, concealing, or abandoning a ādead human body and concealing the death of another personā after receiving a tip that the girl had miscarried at 23 weeks. Facebook then handed gave authorities her messages, which suggested that the girl partook in a self-managed abortion. Just one month before the girl was charged, Meta CEO (the parent company of Facebook) Mark Zuckerburg answered a question from employees about how the company will protect those seeking abortions by saying that they would expand encryption across the platform. At the same time, Metaās VP of HR Janelle Gale reportedly told employees that they were not allowed to discuss abortion at work. As we reported previously, users of Meta subsidiaries Instagram and Facebook reported the systematic removal of any posts about abortion pills. Meta continues to earn revenue from anti-abortion advertisements pedaling misinformation. An investigation by the Markup discovered that Facebook was collecting data from users interacting with abortion services websites, and subsequently made that information available to anti-abortion groups.
Fuck these facists.
