Every family has at least one WhatsApp group that is a strange cocktail of grocery lists, birthday plans, unsolicited weather warnings and the occasional article that someone’s aunt has forwarded without reading. Mine is no exception. My uncle believes in miracle cures; my cousin replies with eye-roll emojis; my grandmother forwards videos of baby animals and vaguely apocalyptic news stories in equal measure. We laugh, sigh, sometimes argue, and try to move on. But in recent years, politicians and commentators have looked at this messy, human, unsupervised conversation and concluded that it needs supervision. The headline of a recent Australian…

Behind every abortion debate, there is a human being trying to make the best decision for their life, their health, and their future. And no one should have to make that decision surrounded by lies. Yet today, misinformation and junk science about abortion are more than just noise on social media—they have become powerful tools in legislation, litigation, and even federal regulatory agencies. The latest example involves mifepristone, one of the two medications used in medication abortion. In March, anti-abortion lawmakers in Congress introduced the Clean Water for All Life Act, a bill that used a discredited claim that mifepristone…