censorship

A set of photos featured in the World Press Photo exhibition showing an LGBT community in the Philippines has claimed the job of a museum director in Hungary.

Frustrated DALL-E 3 users are planning to stage an online protest over what they say are "absurd levels" of censorship.

Users of DALL-E 3 have been raging against Microsoft for the computer giant's heavy-handed censorship of the AI image generator.

A seemingly innocuous photograph of two Chinese athletes embracing each other at the end of a race has been censored by authorities.

Journeying through misty mountains and deep forestry, photographer Erinthul takes refuge in capturing her dark and cryptic self-portraits that serve as an invitation into folklore and the arcane wildernesses of Poland.

As part of several initiatives being brought forward today, which is Safer Internet Day, Google will expand its SafeSearch settings in Google Image Search and will automatically blur explicit imagery even when SafeSearch isn't turned on.

Chinese protestors angry with endless COVID restrictions have been flipping videos filmed on their phones and adding filters to avoid the government's online censors.

China has been accused of censoring maskless fans at the World Cup on state TV to maintain the illusion that the country's strict zero-COVID rules aren't dissimilar from the outside world.

Memphis International Airport has issued an apology after abruptly removing and then reinstating photographer Tommy Kha’s self-portrait as an Elvis tribute artist.

India is in the midst of what is being described as a "devastating" wave of Covid-19 cases across the country which caused a large influx of social media posts critical of the government's response. Hundreds of posts were ordered to be removed by India's government, which are now blocked in the country.

Editor’s note: Veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim (@yunghi) sent me the following thoughts after the publication of my article about the ethics of showing protestors’ faces.

Instagram landed in hot water yesterday after some users discovered they were being blocked from posting anything with the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. In a statement on Twitter, the photo sharing site blamed its anti-spam system.

Stock photo giant Shutterstock has found itself in some ethical hot water. In a recording obtained by the media, an executive is heard dismissing employees' concerns about the censorship of search results in China, telling them that they are free "to pursue other opportunities" if they're unhappy with the company's decision.

Iranian music streaming website Melovaz is under fire today after it was discovered that, in accordance with the country's strict censorship policies, the site is forced to Photoshop out women out of album cover art. The policy means that women are being scrubbed—often very poorly—out of their own cover art, resulting in some very strange, almost comical album covers.

One of the most famous Chinese photojournalists has gone missing in China, and there are reports that he was arrested by government security officers.

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert is being accused of a very rudimentary style of censorship by photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo. According to Lo Scalzo, Gohmert got up and physically blocked his view so that he couldn't photograph protesters during attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearings earlier this week.

Facebook's rigid content restrictions and community standards are softening a bit today, and it's all because of Nick Ut and his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Terror of War, known by many as "Napalm Girl."

It seems like everybody has chimed in about the Facebook censorship controversy surrounding Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut's photo "Terror of War" ... except the photographer himself. Until now.

Facebook is being slammed by Norway's largest newspaper after the social network deleted a post showing the iconic Vietnam War 'Napalm Girl' photo because the shot contains nudity.

Back in June, we shared a series of photos by Joey L., who made a dangerous trip to Kurdistan to point his camera at the Kurdish guerrilla groups fighting in the Syrian civil war.

It turns out that many of the photos violate Instagram's policies, not because they show violence or graphic scenes, but because they show members of PKK, a group that's listed on "terrorist" lists. Joey L. isn't pleased with the policy.

Instagram sparked controversy this week after deleting this photograph of a woman lying on a bed with menstruation blood seen on her clothing and on her sheets. She's now demanding to know why other more graphic or risqué photos are allowed on the service while images of a fully clothed woman on her period are not.