An oversight board made recommendations against the company’s restrictive female nudity policies. Will Instagram comply?
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Artist Slammed for Matching Instagram Photos to Open-Camera Footage
Critics of the project say artist Dries Depoorter is engaging dangerously with surveillance culture.
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Artists Tell Instagram: We’re Done!
Artists are resorting to platforms like Onlyfans and Pornhub to show work that was banned from the social media network.
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BeReal App Gets Real Roasted With Memes
The popular BeReal app, which prompts users to post within a two-minute window at a random time every day, has become prime fodder for memes.
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Why Does Instagram Think My Artwork is Soliciting Sex?
Instagram’s new “sexual solicitation” notification used in a misguided purge of “sexual” material is not only wrong, it’s also offensive.
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Regarding the Pain of Others, on Social Media
While influencers market their brands using images of beauty ideals and upward mobility, grief accounts have started popping up, offering a different message.
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Why Does Instagram Keep Allowing My Images to Be Stolen?
It seems like my plum photo can be used to sell almost anything: beauty products, nutritional supplements, mental health coaching, fashion, concept stores.
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An Antidote to Instagram’s Toxicity Is Already in Our Hands
The body positivity movement is an asset that Instagram seems reticent to put forward as the resource it is.
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All These Artworks Have Been Censored By Instagram
The Facebook-owned social platform has taken down drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptures depicting nudity, even in partial or abstracted form.
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Instagram Censored a Pedro Almodóvar Film Poster (and Then Apologized)
Instagram temporarily took down the image showing a lactating nipple.
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The Art of AI: Computer-generated Sculptures Are Eerily Real
Artist Matteo Rattini trained a neural network to create images of contemporary sculptures based on Instagram’s algorithm suggestions.
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Artists Concerned Over Instagram’s New “Sensitive Content” Controls
The social media giant defines sensitive content as “posts that don’t necessarily break our rules, but could potentially be upsetting to some people.”