“Yelp cannot mislead and deceive the public simply because the company disagrees with our state’s abortion laws,' said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Crisis pregnancy center executive director: 'We feel totally and completely misunderstood of what we do'
The lawsuit comes after the business review site and aggregator’s CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman, said that Yelp needed to"take action" after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision, which ruled that the Constitution does not protect accessthe public simply because the company disagrees with our state’s abortion laws," said Paxton."Major companies cannot abuse their platforms and influence to control consumers’ behavior, especially on sensitive health issues like pregnancy and abortion.
Since of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, platforms have altered the way pregnancy crisis centers are presented to users. Google and Yelp have disabled the ability for people to post reviews of some crisis pregnancy centers, Yelp re-categorized thousands of center listings, and Facebook has reportedly been collecting data from users who visited websites for crisis pregnancy centers.
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