Some companies that sell abortion pills online have had their accounts suspended on Meta’s Instagram social media platform and their posts have been restricted on Instagram as well as Meta’s Facebook.

According to The New York Times, Meta said that companies including Aid Access, Just the Pill, Women Help Women and Hey Jane were part of what Meta called “over-moderation” that included account suspensions and the blurring , delete or block posts.

Meta told the Times it restored some accounts this week. An abortion pill provider said its accounts had been affected since November, the Times reported. Providers also told the paper that excessive moderation affecting their accounts and posts has increased over the past two weeks.

Meta told the Times that the issue has to do with its policies on content from drug providers. Asked for comment by CNET, Meta spokeswoman Erin Logan reiterated this.

“We prohibit the sale of medicinal products on our platforms without proper certification, and our policies in this area have not changed,” he said. “These groups are experiencing different issues – some due to proper enforcement, as well as excessive enforcement. to do that.”

Meta also said that the blurring of posts was a technical issue involving content that was cross-posted from Facebook to Instagram, and that the flagged posts had been restored. Some posts, the company said, did not violate Facebook’s policies.

The timing of Meta’s mishandling of accounts and posts comes as the company shifts its strategy and removes Facebook’s fact-checking in favor of community notes. This too closer lined up on its own with the new President Donald Trump. But Meta says the moderation of accounts belonging to abortion pill providers has nothing to do with changes to Facebook’s speech policy or Meta’s other changes.

Trump, on the other hand, railed against social media companies, and he released an executive order on Tuesday aimed at what he called government censorship of social platforms. The president and others on the right have accused the Biden administration of suppressing speech on such platforms. In June, however, the The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Biden administration in a lawsuit alleging it overreached in its contacts with social media companies. as THE audience via NPR, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said in her opinion for the court’s majority that the parties suing the government did not offer any evidence to support their claims that the government forced social media companies to control their speech.

Aid Access, one of the affected abortion pill providers, and, the Times says, one of the largest providers of abortion pills in the US, has more than 53,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Facebook. On an Instagram postthe company said, “We know that some of our posts are still blurry or missing, and we’re working hard to fix that.”