Meta's oversight board says the platforms’ current nudity policies are not in line with their values.
The oversight board for Meta, the parent company of both platforms, advised them to update their nudity policies after reviewing the decision to remove two Instagram posts featuring trans and non-binary people with bare chests. The photos were accompanied by a caption explaining that they were raising money for one member of the couple who was about to undergo gender-affirming surgery.
“The Board finds that Meta’s policies on adult nudity result in greater barriers to expression for women, trans, and gender non-binary people on its platforms. For example, they have a severe impact in contexts where women may traditionally go bare-chested, and people who identify as LGBTQI+ can be disproportionately affected, as these cases show.”
Prior to this advisory, Facebooks’s rules stated that photos of nipples were only allowed in the context of breastfeeding, birth giving and after-birth moments, health , or an act of protest,” whereas Instagram only allowed "photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding.” Still, the board described the current exceptions made for breastfeeding, health, and protest reasons as “convoluted and poorly defined.” People posting breastfeeding photos or
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