Facebook community note corrects Hillary Clinton for falsely blaming woman’s death on pro-life law – LifeSite

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(LifeSiteNews) — Evidence continues to mount that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to make the social network less biased were more than talk, with a recent post by Hillary Clinton receiving a community note correcting its pro-abortion falsehood.
On June 24, the former first lady, New York senator, U.S. secretary of state, and failed presidential candidate posted, “Three years ago today, Trump’s far-right Supreme Court majority ended Americans’ federal right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 100 women have been denied emergency [so-called] abortion care. One of them, Amber Nicole Thurman, was only 28 and left behind a son. Today, share her story—which you can find at ProPublica—and keep fighting for reproductive freedom for all.”
Thurman was a Georgia woman who developed a fatal case of sepsis in 2022 following complications from abortion pills. The death was attributed far and wide across the media to Georgia law supposedly denying her emergency medical care.
However, as explained by Live Action, the sepsis for which Thurman “needed additional care” is a known potential risk of the abortion pills she was given out of state; Georgia law only prohibited dilation & curettage (D&C) procedures being used to commit abortions, not to remove the un-expelled remains of an unborn baby after an abortion; and that the original report publicizing her story admitted that the medical staff involved “declined to explain their thinking” as to why they chose not to perform a D&C. Despite the misrepresentation, ProPublica received a Pulitzer Prize for the story.
Clinton’s post received a community note explaining the context that Thurman “died from infection after taking abortion pills in NC. She went to a Georgia hospital when she became seriously ill. Doctors delayed a needed D and C for nearly 20 hours despite Georgia law allowing emergency care. Her death was ruled preventable. Her family is suing for wrongful death and medical malpractice. Attorney Ben Crump said, ‘The law did not stop care, inaction did.’”
Facebook announced community notes in March, inspired by an X feature by the same name, that would “draw on a broader range of voices that exist on our platform to decide which content would benefit from additional information.” The notes are an alternative to the platform’s previous “fact-checking” program, which was heavily criticized for relying on third-party groups that often had left-wing biases.
The note is the latest sign of change at Facebook, which for years was one of the biggest offenders in left-wing bias and censorship in the tech world.
Last year, Zuckerberg began to acknowledge and disavow the social network’s compliance with Biden administration requests to censor content challenging establishment COVID-19 narratives and announced in January 2025 that parent company Meta would be taking steps to “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.” The company also abandoned a number of diversity, equity, & inclusion (DEI) policies, including the placement of female hygiene products in male restrooms.
In April, Meta laid out its goal to “remove bias” from its Llama 4 artificial intelligence language model, so that it “answers questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints without passing judgment, and doesn’t favor some views over others.” Later that month, the Meta Oversight Board ruled that two social media posts that “misgendered” gender-dysphoric individuals should remain standing as they did not violate the platform’s Hate Speech policy.