SMNTY Classics: Facebook's Abortion Blackout
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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While Meta openly claims that they are supportive of 'free expression' around accurate health information, in practice they regularly take down accurate reproductive rights content without transparency. Bridget Todd joins us to sift through Meta's proclaimed standards versus the reality, and why it's such a problem in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.3 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.5 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.2 | And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:28.4 | And in our continuing end of the year, favorite episodes wrap up, bring back, |
| 0:31.6 | we're also choosing two of our favorite Bridget episodes. |
| 0:33.2 | Those are so wonderful. |
| 0:43.1 | They're hard to choose from one that really stuck out to me was the one we did about Facebook's abortion blackout, |
| 0:48.1 | where we were talking about what Facebook was doing. |
| 0:56.8 | They're saying they're doing free expression, but in fact they're not doing that at all and not doing anything with transparency. |
| 1:03.6 | And it's just such a relevant, unfortunately relevant conversation. |
| 1:19.4 | And it's just really, I think it's a good reminder that we need to be aware of what these companies are doing and just your existence and data and how it operates in that space. |
| 1:31.3 | So, yeah, please enjoy this classic episode. Hey, this is Annie. |
| 1:32.5 | And Samantha. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm welcome to Steppen Never Told You, a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 1:48.6 | And today we are once again thrilled to be joined by the fabulous, the fantastic. |
| 1:49.5 | Bridget Todd. |
| 1:50.4 | Welcome, Bridget. |
| 1:52.2 | Thank you for having me back. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:55.5 | We're so excited to have you always. |
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