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Promotions for the stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own were banned from Facebook and Instagram for their inclusion of “social topics.”

When the newly reopened Teatre Raval, which seats 193 spectators, asked Meta, the parent company of the two social media sites, why its publicity had been blocked, it was told “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.

Just another reminder that today is as good of a day as any to delete your Instagram.