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Yelp to add more flags to anti-abortion pregnancy centers
The Associated Press ^ | August 23, 2022

Posted on 08/23/2022 1:52:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The online reviews site Yelp said Tuesday it is rolling out a new feature to protect users seeking abortions from being misled about anti-abortion pregnancy centers listed on its platform.

Such centers are typically religiously affiliated and deter clients from having an abortion. On Tuesday, Yelp said it will place a consumer notice on the listings informing users that the centers “typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite.”

Yelp’s move might put more pressure on Google to do something similar with listings on its site.

Google did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Tuesday.

In the past several months, Yelp said it has also been picking up on efforts to better match users searching for abortion clinics with those services and make it less likely those users will see anti-abortion pregnancy centers in search results. The company said it has evaluated roughly 33,500 listings this year and recategorized nearly 470 pages for the centers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykillers; chat; prolife; yelp

1 posted on 08/23/2022 1:52:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

YELP

Helping women kill their babies!!

really makes you want to join huh? glad I never did.


2 posted on 08/23/2022 1:54:37 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone who relies on Yelp for actual factual information is a fool.


3 posted on 08/23/2022 1:55:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s a big lie, pregnancy centers often have retired nurses and doctors volunteer.


4 posted on 08/23/2022 1:56:44 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do they have a flag that means: “They love you and your baby there, and they do not want your money.”?


5 posted on 08/23/2022 1:58:00 PM PDT by JCM
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Crisis pregnancy center" gives no expectation of medical care. It's a referral service, sometimes for medical care, sometimes for financial assistance, housing, or just support.

To be consistent, abortuaries aren't about medical care. The "doctors" who perform them are often barely qualified, and are doing so because they were at the bottom of their class and didn't have many other opportunities in the medical profession.

Planned Barrenhood is really just a drug pimp, distributing pills and condoms to people, often minors. "Medical" procedures are a very meager part of their operation.

6 posted on 08/23/2022 2:15:15 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They could have just changed the listing category but they just had to get in the hostile insults too.


7 posted on 08/23/2022 2:18:51 PM PDT by jarwulf ( )
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To: eyeamok

Yelp...

Aptly named when they object to killing the unborn with one.

Yelp!

Yelp, yelp, yelp...

Too many of the new internet services have been corrupted to
appeal to the worst in our society.


8 posted on 08/23/2022 2:19:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; eyeamok; fwdude

So, what is the chance these flags will attract more clients than they repel?


9 posted on 08/23/2022 2:39:44 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Congfwdude)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yelp is BS. I tried to give feedback on a terrible experience at a 4 star restaurant and yelp had a ridiculous procedure to do so. Eff em.


10 posted on 08/23/2022 2:42:18 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa
Yelp restaurant reviews are about a reliable as flipping a coin. I gave up on Yelp years ago.

11 posted on 08/23/2022 2:45:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who would post a yelp review of an abortion?


12 posted on 08/23/2022 3:43:17 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: \/\/ayne

Their opening gambit is always slander. Everything is a ploy. they are ployers.


13 posted on 08/23/2022 5:19:35 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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