YouTube’s Search Results for “Abortion” Show Exactly What Anti-Abortion Activists Want Women to See

YouTube’s Search Results for “Abortion” Show Exactly What Anti-Abortion Activists Want Women to See
Gory videos rife with misinformation.

By April Glaser
Dec 21, 2018

When you Google “abortion,” the top results are relatively staid considering the divisiveness of the topic in American life. There’s a link to information about the procedure from Planned Parenthood, a Google map of nearby abortion providers, a link to an overview of anti-abortion and pro-choice arguments from the nonpartisan procon.org, and links to various news sources like the New York Times and the New Yorker.

If, until recently, you did the same over on Google-owned YouTube, it felt like you were searching in a whole other universe. Before I raised the issue with YouTube late last week, the top search results for “abortion” on the site were almost all anti-abortion—and frequently misleading.

Continued: https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/youtube-search-abortion-results-pro-life.html