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Belgian museums are protesting the social media platform’s inability to distinguish the Flemish master’s Baroque nudes from pornography

Facebook is under fire yet again for censoring artwork that features nudity. This time, the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens and his paintings of nude women and cherubs – as well as a loinclothed Jesus in The Descent from the Cross (1612–14) have all fallen foul of the social media giant. Images of the paintings were part of an advertizing campaign launched by the Flemish tourism bureau. But Facebook’s rules around nudity and its inability to automatically distinguish between centuries-old art and pornography led to the promotions being removed from the site.

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