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Meta's digital censorship targets art from the Leopold Museum
According to the prestigious institution, the works of established artists such as Egon Schiele and Christian Schad have been blocked by Instagram and Facebook
'Self-Portrait with Model' by Christian Schad, from 1927, one of the works blocked by Meta.Christian-Schad-Stiftung Aschaffenburg/Bildrecht In 2021, museums in Vienna launched a witty campaign to protest the censorship of art on social media: they opened an account on OnlyFans, a platform that monetizes pornographic content. And Schad is one of the key figures of Splendor and Misery, the Leopold Museum’s latest exhibition dedicated to the New Objectivity in Germany, the interwar aesthetic movement that was killed by the rise of Nazism. It is ironic that one of the most prestigious museums in Europe hosts an exhibition like Splendor and Misery — which explores the search for sexual liberation, the recognition of same-sex relationships, the breaking of taboos and the “new woman” that emerged in the turbulent Berlin society of the 1920s, more than a hundred years ago — and is censored by a 21st century tech corporation.
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