Google-owned YouTube has admitted a mistake in censoring a pro-life video but refuses to revoke its fact-checking censorship.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) shared a video on its YouTube channel on Feb. 5 highlighting the dangers of the abortion pill for women using it. YouTube imposed a fact-checking context label that falsely claimed abortion is “done by a licensed healthcare professional” even though abortion pills are administered by the women themselves. After being called out by 16 state attorneys general, YouTube updated its label but did not remove it. The video platform uses such labels to discredit and suppress content that goes against a leftist narrative.
ADF Senior Counsel Erik Baptist issued a comment on YouTube’s update, arguing, “Women deserve to know the truth about the risks posed by abortion drugs, which is why first-hand…
