Twitter has let media buyers promote iffy content, including state-sponsored propaganda, overt white supremacy and obvious scams, in the past, but clinical references to women’s bodies apparently won’t get through.
Per a recent tweet by New York Times contributor Jennifer Gunter, the platform refused to let her publisher run any ads with the word “vagina” to promote her new book, The Vagina Bible. According to Gunter, the promoted tweets could show the book’s cover—with “The Vagina Bible” in bold, black font—but couldn’t use the actual word in the ad.
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