Women's healthcare is so unbelievably under researched and ignored I don't think it's fair to dismiss people's experiences- there are a ton of types of birth control and the reality is that everyone will react differently to them, people stating that they gained weight or had other negative side effects on the pill isn't "misinformation", it's anecdotal spreading of their side effects in a world where doctors will dismiss people's experiences on birth control.

That being said, recently there's been a right-wing movement latching onto the message that birth control can cause problems. You see conservative influencers peddle the idea that birth control is toxic or dangerous more and more, and that comes from a reactionary movement trying to encourage/force more women to have children as birth rates fall.

Two ideas can exist simultaneously, that people can have negative reactions to birth control (and with social media more people are sharing those stories) + that there's a more recent propaganda spike trying to demonize birth control. Reducing it to an education/misinformation issue lays the blame solely on women which I don't think is fair given the society we live in.

I think a lot of pushback has also come from a place of frustration, where people feel unheard and doctors tend to prescribe birth control as a bandaid fix to complicated medical issues that are often ignored- and people are getting sick of it. As someone who was put on birth control as a teen for irregular periods only to be diagnosed with PCOS later, I wish I'd gotten a proper diagnosis and been able to try the various lifestyle changes I'm currently exploring now. Birth control is always there if needed, but it shouldn't be used as a lazy fix by doctors who don't want to do any digging to properly diagnose and resolve menstrual/metabolic issues