Facebook Turned Over Teen's Personal Info So She Could Be Prosecuted For Abortion

Facebook turned over the data of a teenage girl to investigators so that they could prosecute her, and her mother, for getting an abortion. Facebook says that they were only complying with information that had been subpoenaed, but the dangers that this poses to the health and safety of American citizens are beyond mind-blowing. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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According to a report from motherboard this week, Facebook actually helped law enforcement track down a 17 year old and her mother who had an abortion, a pharmaceutical induced in abortion prior to, by the way, Roe versus Wade being overturned. Now, Facebook, as far as what I've seen says that they always comply with subpoenas. They always comply with requests from law enforcement officers. So what happened was that this, uh, teenager and her mother had to leave the state to go and get the pharmaceuticals. Um, it's a drug called pregno in order to induce this abortion. They did that. They then on Facebook, DM organized a bit of a, a funeral for the stillborn child. So they, they did say, okay, we're we are going to bury it. We're going to invite people. But again, they organized this over Facebook, DM and Facebook turned over those DMS to law enforcement.

Again, possibly at their request is as far as we know, and the teenager was arrested, the mother was arrested. Mother's now been charged with five felonies. Um, the minor of course is being charged with a multitude of things as well. And any woman in this country needs to immediately get rid of Facebook. That's what we're dealing with now, because again, think about it. This was prior to Roe versus Wade getting overturned by our activist Supreme court. We now have states that have put bounties on people who leave the state to have an abortion, right. Call us and tell us if you know of somebody who's left so that they can get an abortion. Cuz we banded here.

So how long until Facebook doesn't have to wait for law enforcement to ask for this info, for this personal private information, how long until Facebook just does, you know, algorithms where they can look for these keywords and determine who's leaving to have an abortion and they start turning them in and say, Hey, we turned in 10 people this month. Give us our rewards. This is terrifying folks. So again, this isn't so much to rehash this story, cuz I know everybody's been talking about it for days. This is to tell everybody how to avoid a situation like this first and foremost, get rid of Facebook a hundred percent, get off it it's trash anyway, go away. But if you insist on staying, if you have to leave your state to go and get one of these procedures done, do not post anything on Facebook. If you're going to bring your

Cell phone with you, which I would advise against doing leave it at home. But if you're bringing it with you, turn off location services, you can print out directions from map quest at home. If you need to, you know, do it the old fashioned way, but do not turn on location services from your phone. Do not let your phone be able to track where you are because if Facebook can do it, so can apple. So can you know if you're using an Android, any app that you have in that phone, that's also tracking your location could do the same thing. So either leave the phone at home or turn off your location services before you walk out your front door to go do whatever it is because I promise you this is gonna get worse. And any app that you have that is tracking, you could easily be subpoenaed by law enforcement or they could just voluntarily give that data over themselves. And you could end up in a situation being charged like this mother with multiple felonies, all because you didn't turn your phone off. So folks protect yourselves, getting bad. And right now that's probably the best advice I can give you.