This study sought to investigate the prominence of U.S. birth control pioneer and eugenicist Margaret Sanger in social media discourse through a critical disinformation studies lens. Using computational and qualitative analysis techniques, 60 months of public Facebook posts and Google search data were analyzed to explore the scope, reach, and engagement with messages that reference Sanger and examine how injustice frames utilizing Sanger’s historical ties to eugenics are being used today to misinform and disinform on abortion and other issues. Injustice frames featuring Sanger were deployed to portray abortion as a method for Black genocide; vilify feminism as racist, anti-woman, and anti-motherhood; and depict the Black Lives Matter social justice movement and cancel culture as hypocritical. This analysis also captured a moment in time when Sanger’s legacy was being reconsidered by Planned Parenthood, the organization she founded, indicating that a long-sought-after reckoning with the racist roots of the early birth control movement in the United States may be underway—with both predictable and unpredictable rippling effects in disinformative spaces.

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虚假信息和玛格丽特·桑格的幽灵


本研究试图通过批判性的虚假信息研究镜头来调查美国节育先驱和优生学家玛格丽特·桑格 （Margaret Sanger） 在社交媒体话语中的突出地位。使用计算和定性分析技术，分析了 60 个月的公开 Facebook 帖子和 Google 搜索数据，以探索引用桑格的信息的范围、范围和参与度，并研究今天如何利用桑格与优生学的历史联系来误导和误导堕胎和其他问题。以桑格为主角的不公正框架被用来将堕胎描绘成黑人种族灭绝的一种方法;诋毁女权主义是种族主义、反女性和反母性的;并将 Black Lives Matter 社会正义运动和取消文化描述为虚伪。这项分析还捕捉到了她创立的组织计划生育联合会重新考虑桑格的遗产的时刻，这表明对美国早期节育运动的种族主义根源的长期追捧清算可能正在进行中——在信息不足的空间中会产生可预测和不可预测的涟漪效应。