In 2008, the company banned and removed any such images that showed nipples, causing a backlash and protests from tens of thousands of mothers. The company clarified its guidelines on nudity in 2015, but has not changed its policy. Users of the social network are encouraged to actively report, via onsite tools, images they think could contravene Facebook’s “community standards”. An automated system collates those reports and flags images to human reviewers who determine if they breach the site’s guidelines, which specifically outlaw nudity. Exceptions should obviously be made in some circumstances, but Facebook’s problem is when and where those one-offs should be considered and how not to allow, in its eyes, undesirable content through.

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2016 14:04 UTC