The parent company of Facebook and Instagram handed over the files just weeks before the US Supreme Court’s abortion ruling
Meta gave police access to private messages on Facebookwhich allegedly detailed a teenage girl’s drawings from Nebraska to have an abortion, as the “New York Post” writes.
THE Mark Zuckerberg, which has promised to cover travel expenses for female employees seeking abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, “obeyed” a search warrant from Norfolk, Nebraska police in early June.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram handed over the files just weeks before the Supreme Court ruling, at the same time Zuckerberg reportedly told a meeting of all company employees that “protecting people’s privacy is extremely important ».
Meta, which also allegedly told its employees not to discuss abortion at work, gave police access to two accounts belonging to a 17-year-old named Celeste Burgess and her mother, 41-year-old Jessica Burgess, according to court documents.
Police documents show Meta turned over the Burgesses’ messages on June 9, about two weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24th.
A Meta spokesperson defended the decision to hand over the private conversations. “Nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early June, prior to the Supreme Court decision, mentioned abortion,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said.
“The warrants were for charges related to a criminal investigation, and court documents show police at the time were investigating a specific case of a baby who was burned and buried, not the decision to have an abortion,” the Meta spokesperson added in a series of Twitter posts. .
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