Facebook is watching us, but who’s watching Facebook? | Shahidha Bari

The blocking of Women Lovers exposes the censorious nature of the algorithm’s machine gaze: its inspection of our bodies surely warrants a return inspection
Charles Blackman’s 1980 painting of Women Lovers depicts two women, naked and asleep, serenely sprawled across the canvas. It is Gauguinesque in style, languorous rather than lascivious, more symbolist than sexual. But the mysterious powers-that-be at Facebook this week blocked the image for its “adult content” when i