A guide for communicators and advocates to help stop the spread of disinformation that’s proliferating after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
In the days and weeks leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, disinformation about abortion surged online. Many of the false claims, part of a decades-in-the-making coordinated campaign waged by anti-choice groups to restrict access to abortion, infiltrated the final Supreme Court majority opinion. As people wade through the complex web of compounding and conflicting legal repercussions across the country, anti-choice actors continue to cloud our information sources with more disinformation. Lessons from decades of abortion disinformation can help communicators and advocates anticipate and prepare to combat what will come next.
According to several reports, disinformation about abortion more than doubled on Facebook and Twitter in the week following the early May leak of the SCOTUS draft opinion. And in the hours immediately following the final ruling in June, anti-choice groups began spending thousands of dollars on Facebook ads intended to misinform audiences about the safety of abortion, an especially insidious tactic during the immediate aftermath as states scrambled to understand the legal ramifications in their jurisdictions. Abortion is now banned outright in nine states, and more than half the country is poised to ban or heavily restrict access to the procedure based on...
"Anura brother (elder sibling), making a system change," reads a Sinhala-language Facebook post shared on April 27, 2026, referring to Dissanayake. The post includes an image that appears to show ...
