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What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Just weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a Nebraska woman and her daughter were charged with performing an illegal abortion, thanks to information that law enforcement uncovered by going through their Facebook accounts.  Guest: Johana Bhuiyan, senior reporter on tech and surveillance for The Guardian Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were Liars.

0:08.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:10.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.

0:33.7

Last spring, police in Norfolk, Nebraska, got a tip that a pregnant teenage girl had miscarried

0:39.8

and that she and her mother had secretly buried the stillborn fetus. After an investigation,

0:46.0

the police charged Jessica Burgess, who was 41, and her 17-year-old daughter, Celeste,

0:51.8

with removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead human body, a felony.

0:57.4

It was an upsetting case.

0:59.9

Celeste reportedly said she'd given birth unexpectedly in the shower and said her mother

1:04.6

helped her put the fetal remains in a bag, drive them out of town, and bury them.

1:09.5

There was also some evidence the remains had been burnt.

1:14.8

But this is where the case takes an important technological turn.

1:19.1

According to court documents, Celeste had been roughly 28 weeks pregnant.

1:23.6

And when the detective on the case asked Celeste to pinpoint exactly when the miscarriage occurred,

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