cover image: Networks of Dissuasion - Mapping online attacks on reproductive rights in France

20.500.12592/89324c5

Networks of Dissuasion - Mapping online attacks on reproductive rights in France

22 Jan 2024

These platforms are ultimately responsible for managing and reducing There has been anti-abortion activism in France since the the risk of the spread of harmful content on their sites, implementation of the Loi Veil, which legalised abortion in including the amplification of false and misleading 1974, and there are signs that anti-abortion groups have claims about abortion or dangerous content rel. [...] Wade in the US, and a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling about a demonstra- tion by the Femen group in which a member interrupted a Catholic service and simulated the abortion of Jesus on the church altar to protest the Catholic Church’s views on abortion. [...] Specifically, the aim of this research was to understand • The number of videos recommended to what type of content YouTube’s algorithms recommend in each user during the period of study relation to abortion to women of reproductive age based in France, who are the prime target of anti-abortion actors • The number of times each video was in the country. [...] To gain broader insight into the types of content recommended by Reels, researchers scrolled through Reels for a duration of an hour and identified the top Instagram accounts in the feed (by number of appear- ances in the feed). [...] During the period of research, ISD also recorded the Instagram accounts recommended to the user in Reels, noting the number of times the accounts had been recom- mended.
Pages
35
Published in
United Kingdom