内容摘要：La madre de Smith afirma que esto ha dejado a su familia sin voz en una situación difícil y, con la fecha de parto aún a meses de distancia, se preguntan si el bebé nacerá con alguna dispacidad o si podrá siquiera sobrevivir. Algunos activistas, muchas de ellas mujeres negras como Smith, sostienen que el caso plantea cuestiones de igualdad racial.

La madre de Smith afirma que esto ha dejado a su familia sin voz en una situación difícil y, con la fecha de parto aún a meses de distancia, se preguntan si el bebé nacerá con alguna dispacidad o si podrá siquiera sobrevivir. Algunos activistas, muchas de ellas mujeres negras como Smith, sostienen que el caso plantea cuestiones de igualdad racial.

In April, months after Meta announced changes to ensure greater freedom of expression, Oriéntame, the Colombian collective that offers reproductive health services, posted on Instagram a drawing of a heart and the phrase “Abort without pain.” The post was blocked with the explanation: “Dangerous people and organizations, photo removed.”While Colombia legalized abortion in 2022, Oriéntame experienced censorship of at least 14 of their posts on Instagram in April 2025. That same month, their WhatsApp business account was suspended, said Tatiana Martínez, who manages their social media. Although the WhatsApp account was restored after a week, they worry it could happen again.

A Meta spokesperson said this week that the Instagram posts were mistakenly taken down and not the result of a change in its content standards.Oriéntame director María Vivas says the organization has been battling Google for years over online content limitations. The tech giant said in a message to the AP that it only restricts content when it violates policies. But Google keeps Colombia on the list of countries with restrictions on abortion ads — even though abortion was decriminalized there in 2022.As for their problems with Meta, Vivas said they started in late 2024, when the company started to make some data management adjustments.

Taking legal action against tech giants, when each country has its own laws, is complicated. As a result, affected organizations have turned to creative strategies, like operating multiple backup accounts, having a substitute ready when one is blocked and reformulating language in posts to avoid censorship triggers.“It feels like Meta is our boss,” Vivas joked about the ongoing struggle with the tech giant over the basic right to provide health information. “We live to respond to Meta, to adapt ourselves to Meta,” she said. “That’s absurd.”

AP journalist Maria Cheng contributed to this report from New York.

Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean atThe war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. Israel blames Hamas for the rising death toll in Gaza because it operates from civilian infrastructure, including schools.

The latest bloodshed came days after Israelin the Palestinian enclave. It would include seizing Gaza, holding on to captured territories, forcibly displacing Palestinians to southern Gaza and taking control of aid distribution along with private security companies.

Israel is also calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers to carry out the plan.Other ministers were also worried about developments in Gaza.