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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain

3 hours ago
  • Teatre Raval in Barcelona was 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' like feminism and civil rights.
  • Meta, the parent company, recommended removing keywords to avoid triggering its automated system that filters content related to activism.
  • The theatre and actress Clara Sanchis condemned the censorship, calling it an erasure of hard-won societal advances and a dangerous example of bias and manipulation by social media platforms.