Mental health advocates have raised concerns regarding the new National Suicide Hotline potentially sharing sensitive information such as geolocation with emergency services, which could harmfully impact vulnerable communities. This claim is half true (50-50) – while 988 can share data and geolocation with emergency services, the hotline strives to protect privacy in most calls.

In a leaked draft opinion from the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court case, Justice Samuel Alito claims that abortion negatively impacts Black communities and people who support abortion want to “suppress the size of the African American population,” a claim that ignores systemic reasons and greater context for why there are higher rates of abortion in Black and other communities of color.