You can't make this up. A so-called social media network is banning ads because they include social topics.
"Theatre told that #Facebook and #Instagram filter out #ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or #feminism"
"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”.
#meta replied to a request :
"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."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval
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