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Activists have long advocated to “free the nipple,” and that debate continues online.

Men can post as many shirtless bathroom selfies as they please, but Meta’s Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity guidelines state that “uncovered female nipples” aren’t allowed, unless depicting:

• Breastfeeding
• Giving birth
• Medical or health contexts (e.g., breast cancer awareness, gender-affirming surgery)
• Protests

Meanwhile, its content moderation systems seem utterly confused by trans and nonbinary chests.

Meta’s Oversight Board, which helps the tech giant make decisions about content moderation, wants an overhaul, saying current policies pose “greater barriers to expression” for women and LGBTQ+ people.

It started with an appeal…

… from a couple — one of whom is transgender, the other nonbinary — who said Meta had removed two photos in which they appeared bare-chested with nipples covered while fundraising for one partner’s top surgery (a procedure to remove breast tissue).

Following alerts from user reports and Meta’s automated systems, Instagram removed the posts for violating sexual solicitation policies, despite top surgery being a gender-affirming procedure.

The board overturned Meta’s decision…

… and wants Meta to revamp its “convoluted and poorly defined” moderation criteria, which it says is based on a binary view of gender, is confusing for users and moderators, and results in wrongfully removed content.

The board recommends Meta:

• Define how it moderates adult nudity after conducting a human rights impact assessment
• Provide more detail in its public-facing guidelines on what gets removed and why
• Revise guidance for moderators to accurately reflect those details

Meta has 59 days to issue a public response, per The Guardian.

But moderation may remain difficult, according to experts, who say that bad actors may still flag posts that don’t violate standards — and that AI isn’t always great at nuance.

For quite some time, the canned tuna market has been in need of a tuneup.

USDA data shows that between 1989 and 2018, per capita availability plummeted 46%.

Moreover, in 2017, Bumble Bee and StarKist paid a combined $125m after pleading guilty to price-fixing their tuna. In 2019, Bumble Bee filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and agreed to be purchased for $925m.

But new data…

… shows a recent TikTok trend may have helped turn the tide by billing the pungent snack as a $20-a-pop date night delicacy.

In 2022, US canned seafood sales jumped 9.7% to $2.7B, per The Wall Street Journal.

• Niche brands have been especially prosperous. Alaska’s classy Wildfish Cannery doubled wholesale revenue last year; Vancouver’s Scout Canning grew revenue 82% to $4m.

The uptick is being partially attributed to influencers on TikTok, where the hashtag #tinnedfish has 26.5m+ views.

Ali Hooke, a chef from San Francisco, makes a popular series of “tinned fish date night” TikToks, which frequently rack up hundreds of thousands of views.

Not everyone’s a fan, though. Top comments say things like, “New fear unlocked” and “Sounds like the worst day of the week.”

If you start a new restaurant job, there’s a good chance you’ll be asked to pay $15 to a company called ServSafe for an online food-safety class.

You’ll learn about things like handwashing and spotting mold. What’s not taught in class, though, is that ServSafe is the fundraising arm of the National Restaurant Association, the food-service industry’s largest lobbying group.

The association, which claims to represent 500k+ restaurants, has fought minimum wage increases at federal and state levels for decades, per The New York Times.

That means workers unknowingly pay the organization that fights to keep their pay as low as possible.

And it’s already low:

• The federal minimum wage has only risen once since 1996, from $5.15 to $7.25.
• The federal minimum hourly wage for tipped workers has remained $2.13 since 1991.

Minimums are higher in many individual states, but still below what labor groups believe to be livable wages.

It gets worse:

• More than 3.6m workers have taken the ServSafe training, paying ~$25m since 2010.
• While ServSafe training is offered in all states, it’s mandatory for workers in large states like Texas, California, Illinois, Florida, and Utah.

If you’re wondering how this is all legal…

… it’s because the National Restaurant Association is a business league, a type of nonprofit that’s able to lobby more freely than traditional charities. How convenient.