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Facebook’s Latest ‘Mistake’ – Blacklisting Artwork Mocking the Chinese Government
by Alana Mastrangelo

Instagram recently censored a post by an artist critical of the Chinese government. The anti-Beijing post was removed by the Facebook-owned social media platform, but death threats made against the artist remained uncensored. Instagram later restored the artwork, while Facebook claimed that the censorship had occurred due to “a mistake” by the company.

An artist and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, using the pseudonym Badiucao to protect his identity, had his anti-Beijing artwork removed by Instagram, according to a report by the Guardian.

Badiucao’s artwork — which depicted the former Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, mounting an emu and a kangaroo — was reportedly banned by Instagram. Badiucao lives and works in Australia.

The artwork critical of the Chinese government and communist leader responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people had supposedly violated the platform’s “community standards.”

Badiucao later took to Twitter to point out that while his artwork had been censored, the Internet “trolls” sending him death threats were allowed to remain online, uncensored.

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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/08/21/facebooks-latest-mistake-blacklisting-artwork-mocking-the-chinese-government/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true

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