Facebook has apologized to an Australian feminist group after blocking an advertisement featuring plus-sized model Tess Holliday in a bikini.
The social network had told the group, called Cherchez La Femme, that the image was rejected because Facebook’s guidelines do not allow health and fitness ads to depict a particular body weight as being either “perfect or extremely undesirable,” according to a screenshot posted to the group’s page.
“Ads like these are not allowed because they make viewers feel bad about themselves,” a Facebook ads rep said in the message. Read more…
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