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Facebook and Instagram review the clause that prohibits showing bare breasts

  • Facebook and Instagram review the clause that prohibits showing bare breasts
    Facebook and Instagram’s parent company could soon free the nipple but only for trans, non-binary. Facebook and Instagram, after a decade of bans, will review policies that condemn images of bare breasts, amid allegations that the rules restrict the free expression of women and transgender people. Facebook and Instagram review the clause that prohibits showing bare breasts
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Facebook and Instagram’s parent company could soon free the nipple but only for trans, non-binary. Facebook and Instagram, after a decade of bans, will review policies that condemn images of bare breasts, amid allegations that the rules restrict the free expression of women and transgender people.

Facebook and Instagram may allow transgender and non-binary users to flash their bare breasts — but women who were born female and who are eager to “free the nipple” are out of luck, according to Meta’s advisory board.

Meta’s Oversight Board — an independent body of experts which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called the company’s “Supreme Court” for content moderation and censorship policies — ordered Facebook and Instagram to lift a ban on images of topless women for anyone who identifies as transgender or non-binary, meaning they view themselves as neither male or female.

“The same image of female-presenting nipples would be prohibited if posted by a cisgender woman but permitted if posted by an individual self-identifying as non-binary,” the board noted in its decision.