Online Misleading Information About Women's Reproductive Health: A Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT: Misinformation about reproductive health threatens to harm health outcomes, compromise medical trust, and enable misinformed policy restrictions. In recent years, reproductive health misinformation has proliferated online due to ideological campaigns and limited content moderation for reproductive health topics. Developing evidence-based practices to counter reproductive health misinformation requires an understanding of the content that women are exposed to online, which is currently lacking. This review sought to identify common claims and narratives about reproductive health on social media and the internet that could easily mislead. We performed a narrative review of articles about online reproductive health misinformation, from which we extracted misleading claims and narratives. We c

SUBMITTER: John JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11968640 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature