Facebook modifies nudity guidelines

Changing its community guidelines, Facebook has allowed users to post photos of breastfeeding. The change comes as the #FreeTheNipple campaign, attacking guidelines used by social media websites to regulate nudity, has gathered pace online.

Facebook’s Community Standards, which outline what users are allowed to post, never included a outright ban on photos of breastfeeding.

However, users who had posted photos of women showing their nipples while breast feeding have complained that Facebook moderators citing ‘nudity and pornography’ removed their images, regardless of whether the photos were overtly sexual.