Menopause, abortion, and endometriosis aren’t bad words…
so why are they censored by Big Tech?
From account suspensions to content removal, Meta, Amazon, TikTok, and Google are censoring content on sexual and reproductive health for women and people of diverse genders.
In January of 2022 Center for Intimacy Justice published a report describing Meta's censorship of health ads for women and people of diverse genders.
100% (of the 60 organizations we studied) experienced Meta platforms rejecting their advertisements. 50% had their entire advertising accounts suspended by Meta at some point.
A few months after our report, Meta published changes to its sexual health advertising policies – including to add examples of health ads for women and people of underrepresented genders that are allowed, which match the examples of areas we’d shown in our report as blocked. However, Meta is still continuing to reject these advertisements in practice.
Read: The Washington Post’s coverage of CIJ’s legal complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission
“This is a fixable problem.”
- Jackie Rotman, in The New York Times
CIJ speaks on Cheddar News about our findings on Meta’s censorship
Watch the interview of our founder
Watch: Senator Mazie Hirono discuss CIJ's research in a US Congressional hearing
We met with 11 Congressional offices to educate Senators and Congressmembers on Meta’s discriminatory censorship of women’s health information. CIJ’s research has been used in a public letter by the US Senate HELP Committee calling on Meta to change, and in this hearing.
Rewriting business policies to end discrimination toward sexual health for women and people of diverse genders.
Watch our Stanford Graduate School of Business “LOWKeynote.”
