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Oversight Group: Instagram’s Male-Female Distinctions Are Too ‘Binary’

  • The oversight authority that adjudicates content moderation on Facebook and Instagram said this week that the latter photo-sharing platform’s rules on nudity are too reliant on a “binary” distinction between male and female bodies.
  • The Oversight Board said in a release that it had reversed an earlier decision by Instagram to remove two photographs of transgender-identified individuals who were partially nude because the policy that led to that decision “is based on a binary view of gender and a distinction between male and female bodies.”
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