Practice What You Preach, Allow Free Speech Family Council [Video]

Thursday, Jan 9, 2025

MENLO PARK, Calif. – On behalf of pro-life news site LifeNews.com, LifeNews CEO and editor Steven Ertelt, and potential adoptive mom Abby Covington, Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Wednesday to Meta after it wrongly suspended Ertelt, LifeNews.com, and Covington’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. ADF attorneys explain that Meta’s content-moderation mechanisms are either deeply flawed or its standards against “human exploitation” and “child sexual exploitation” were weaponized to suspend the accounts for promoting pro-life beliefs.

As the letter explains, LifeNews, which reaches more than 750,000 individuals weekly through its website, e-mails, radio programs, and social media accounts, has an Instagram account with over 20,000 followers. Ertelt—who has nearly 5,000 friends on his personal account—used his Facebook to repost content from LifeNews. Covington, who used Facebook as a primary source for her small business to reach customers, created a Facebook and Instagram page chronicling her family’s journey toward adoption. Both Ertelt and Covington tried to …