Meta vs the nipple - the 'never-ending' censorship battle

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Medical tattooists are locked in a frustrating battle with Meta's content moderation systems, which repeatedly flag images of nipple tattoos as violating policies against nudity. The artists, who specialize in reconstructive tattooing for cancer survivors and other patients, say the automated flagging is relentless and often requires manual appeals that take weeks to resolve. Meta's rules technically allow such content when it serves medical purposes, yet the platform's filters, trained to catch pornographic material, struggle to distinguish between legitimate medical imagery and prohibited content. The mismatch has left practitioners unable to showcase their work or build their businesses on Instagram and Facebook, raising questions about how AI moderation handles edge cases that fall between commercial guidelines.