“The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s International Pop exhibition starts on February 24th. To promote it, an Art Museum staffer posted the image above – Belgian artist Evelyne Axell’s 1964 painting Ice Cream – on Facebook. … Per the Art Museum, it was removed from the site for ‘containing excessive amounts of skin or suggestive content.’”
“It tears conversations apart, and it’s really confusing when some people have been live-tweeting an event and those things get scattered all across my timeline. It makes it extremely hard to follow events, and destroys one of the core values of Twitter, in my opinion.”
For the second time since his eponymous Bushwick gallery opened, Christopher Stout logged onto Facebook to find that his account had been frozen. The gallerist, whose interest lies in “subversive art,” had posted an image of Lisa Levy, who plans to sit naked on top of a toilet for two straight days in order to … Continue reading “Another NY Gallery Blocked From Facebook After Posting Artist Photo”
The Jan. 14 protest “call[ed] for Facebook users to post an artwork depicting the naked body to protest the social media website’s ‘continuing censorship of artists, curators and critics who have been censored for posting art and images that depict the nude human body.’” And they did – “from Egon Schiele’s painting of himself masturbating … Continue reading “Facebook Nudity Day (That’ll Show The Censors)”
“Every time you open Facebook, one of the world’s most influential, controversial, and misunderstood algorithms springs into action. It scans and collects everything posted in the past week by each of your friends, everyone you follow, each group you belong to, and every Facebook page you’ve liked. For the average Facebook user, that’s more than … Continue reading “How To Control Your Facebook Feed”
“The social media site has deleted pics of artworks by people like Kate Durbin and Erika Ordosgoitto. It has blocked users like Frédéric Durand-Baïssas for sharing paintings including Gustave Courbet’s ‘L’Origine du Monde.’ And though some people have protested by creating Facebook groups like Artists Against Art Censorship, recording every instance of censorship — let … Continue reading “Is Facebook (Or Instagram) Censoring Your Photos Of Nude Art? Report ‘Em”
“Now that Facebook has set a precedent for using Safety Check for terrorism and other violent events, it will need to figure out when and where to use the feature. From Schultz’s comments, it’s not clear if the team would have enabled it for Beirut. He includes the Lebanese city among ‘other parts of the … Continue reading “Facebook Tries To Explain Why Only Paris – And Not Beirut – Merited The ‘Safety Check’”
“A warning message will now pop up any time a user tries to log into an account believed to be targeted by a ‘nation-state.’ According to a screenshot of the new warning, it reads: ‘We believe your Facebook account and your other online accounts may be the target of attacks from state-sponsored actors.’ It then … Continue reading “Facebook Will Start Warning Users If ‘State-Sponsored’ Hacking Hits Their Accounts”
“In some ways, Facebook’s VCG auction is still a theoretical exercise. How much do advertisers really think about gaming the system? How much do they really understand about the way the auction prevents such gaming? How much do they understand the value of an ad in a particular situation? Such questions can’t necessarily be answered.”
“In the beginning, having access to Instant will provide a huge advantage over publications that don’t. Eventually, publishers’ numbers will even out as competition increases. Easy traffic will be harder to come by, and certain tricks — as on the web — will wear out and become useless. This will be good in that it … Continue reading “Facebook’s ‘Instant’ Goes Live, And Media Immediately Post The Longest Form Longform Articles Possible”
