Facebook censors Rubens

July 24 2018

Video: Visit Flanders

The good folk at Visit Flanders fell foul of Facebook's 'no nudity rule' when they tried to use paintings by Rubens to promote tourism in Rubens' home town of Antwerp. But in the spirit of 'all publicity is good publicy', they've turned it to their advantage, with some pushback in the form of the above video. More here.

We need to send the algorithms on an art history course.

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