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Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

The different determinations between what was essentially the exact same post shows how all-over-the-place Meta’s moderation remains, which creates an infuriating dynamic for adult content creators. It was hard enough to deal with having to constantly prove to Facebook that our journalism is not pornography or harmful content when we worked at VICE, where we had a whole audience and social media team who dealt with this kind of thing. I don’t like it, but ultimately the choices Facebook is making here are shaping its platform, and it’s going to be a bigger problem for its users who are going to fall victim to these ads than it is for us as a publisher.

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