Artists have long faced censorship on the company’s platforms, but new guidelines limiting content moderation are far from a boon to free speech.
Emma Shapiro
Emma Shapiro is an American artist and activist based in Spain. She is the creator of the international body equality project Exposure Therapy and is the Editor-at-Large for the Don’t Delete Art campaign. Her artwork can be found on her website and at @exshaps.
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Meta’s Anti-Nudity Algorithms Go After AI Artists
Artists who use the body in their work are falling victim to tech companies’ struggle to respond to generative AI.
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Artists Call on Congress to Stop Corporations From Copyrighting AI Art
Together with writers and performers, visual artists declared an AI Day Of Action to fight for their copyrights.
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Artists Sound the Alarm on Censorship in Spain
The suppression of films, plays, and other content expressing LGBTQ+ and feminist views in recent months has begun to raise the ghosts of Spain’s fascist past.
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How a Bill to Protect Children Online Threatens Artists
Decried by human and digital rights groups, the EARN IT Act threatens to undermine privacy and freedom of expression online.
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Is the “Free the Nipple” Movement Too White?
Online representations of the activists lean White and thin, creating an image problem for the movement.
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Will Meta Finally Lift Its Female Nipple Ban?
An oversight board made recommendations against the company’s restrictive female nudity policies. Will Instagram comply?
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Artistic Freedom Reaches “Lowest Point” in Years, Human Rights Advocates Warn
Rising traditionalism, conservatism, and populism have resulted in major discrimination against women and the LGBTQIA+ artistic community.
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The Future of Art Censorship Is Being Decided Without Artists
And it’s mostly our own fault.
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Artists Tell Instagram: We’re Done!
Artists are resorting to platforms like Onlyfans and Pornhub to show work that was banned from the social media network.
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Why Does Instagram Think My Artwork is Soliciting Sex?
Instagram’s new “sexual solicitation” notification used in a misguided purge of “sexual” material is not only wrong, it’s also offensive.
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When We Confuse the Artist’s Muse with the Artist’s Model
Our culture seems obsessed with the artist/model relationship, portrayed in countless movies and narratives as a relationship that is lustful and scandalous.