Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’

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A theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own on Instagram and Facebook because the work includes “social topics”. When the newly reopened Teatre Raval, which seats 193 spectators, asked Meta, parent company of the two social media sites, why its publicity had been blocked, it was told “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform (topics that are central to Woolf’s work) are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out.

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