Finnish museums have regained their social. The Finnish Museum of Photography says that it has already had to look at its content through American glasses, but now there may be a bigger change.
The Finnish Museum of Photography (left) and the Didrichsen Art Museum eventually returned their Instagram account. Outi Järvinen, Pekka Karhunen
- The Instagram accounts of the Didrichsen Art Museum and Finnish Photography have been restored.
- According to Meta, closing accounts was an error.
- The museums are afraid to happen again.
The giant meta frozen the Instagram accounts of two Finnish museums last week without clear justification, but now the accounts are in operation again.
Didrichsen Art Museum says On Facebookthat the account returned to the lines on Monday night.
– It required several days of work, but we finally got in touch with the right person who confirmed that closing was a mistake, the museum says.
Director of the Didrichsen Art Museum Maria didrichsen tells Iltalehti that they still don’t know the reason for closing the museum’s Instagram account. However, the meta apologized for what happened.
– This is an injury, but finding out the matter requires unreasonable investment from users to correct it. Without our reaction, they would not have returned it, and probably never even noticed that they have made a misconduct, Didrichsen says.
Iltalehti sought Meta’s communications to comment, among other things, whether the decision was to close Finnish museum accounts for automation or human achievement. The giant did not respond to the request for comment.
Somali content had to be adapted to “US moral code”
The Finnish Museum of Photography also told On Facebook Returning their Instagram account. You do not know the basics of closing your account either.
– When the account was closed, we received a message stating that our account was against Instagram’s community rules. In cooperation with the Didrichsen Art Museum, we managed to connect with a man working in meta, the Museum Communications Manager Jaakko Laasanen tells Iltalehti.
– The recovery message stated that our account was in line with community rules, he continues.
The Finnish Museum of Photography says on Facebook it has to consider the museum’s future on American giant platforms.
“We have already become accustomed to reconciling our communication with the content of the US moral code, for example, when we present nudity, it says in his update.
“It may be that in the future, content will need to adapt even more to the policy of the current US administration – for example, equality vocabulary can be censored on social media platforms,” it says.
Laasanen tells Iltalehti that pictures have been removed from the museum’s soma platforms “a couple of times”.
– [Poistetussa] There was nudity in the picture, but it has not played a major role in the picture, and thus, as a Finn, it has not occurred to me that this is now forbidden material. The platform has then removed the image.
In 2020, the Finnish Museum of Photography organized an exhibition with a lot of nudity.
– We could anticipate the platforms’ attitude, so only versions of the pictures were published in which the critical points of naked bodies were blurred. One picture was still censored.
Among other things Yle At that time, he reported on Instagram’s reaction to the exhibition shots.
If the publication does not appear, see it here.
“We look at other options”
According to its own words, the Finnish Museum of Photography has already had time to consider setting up an account in the social media of a decentralized structure, from which accounts cannot be arbitrarily removed.
– The question is, is it in accordance with our values in Instagram and other United States? It asks on Facebook.
According to Maria Didrichsen, their museum is also wondering what to do next.
“We will continue on Instagram and Facebook, but we look at other options here a little quiet,” he tells Iltalehti.