Meta's social media platforms Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or deleted ads from abortion pill providers, according to the New York Times.
Instagram suspended the accounts of several of these suppliers and hid them in search results and recommendations.
Meta, owned by US billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, confirmed the suspension of accounts and the blurring of posts.
The company reinstated some accounts on Thursday after the New York Times questioned it about the matter, the newspaper reports.
A Meta spokesperson attributed some of the recent incidents involving these posts and accounts to rules prohibiting the sale of pharmaceutical products on Meta's social media platforms without proper certification. He could not explain why they had been applied.
According to Aid Access, one of the largest suppliers of abortion pills in the United States, some posts on its Facebook account were deleted and others dating back to November were blurred out on its Instagram account.
Following Trump and Vance
The organisation has also not had access to its Facebook account since November, the New York Times reports. Its Instagram account was suspended last week, although it has since been reinstated.
The Instagram accounts of other abortion pill providers, including Women Help Women and Just the Pill, have also been suspended in recent days, reportedly because their accounts did not comply with Meta's rules. Both were finally reinstated on Thursday, according to the newspaper.
Meanwhile, thousands of people have complained that they are suddenly following the accounts of US President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, even though they never actively chose to followed them.
Meta's communications director Andy Stone explained that the official accounts of the president and vice president (POTUS and WhiteHouse among others) are automatically updated once the inauguration is done.
This means that anyone who followed Joe Biden's official presidential account on Instagram is now following Donald Trump because the name and photo have been changed. The same goes for Kamala Harris and J.D. Vance.
