Facebook promised to restore arts center page that was wrongly removed, but staff still can't post

It’s been more than a year since the page was first taken down. Now, it’s back, but the Dunedin Fine Art Center can’t use it. DUNEDIN, Fla. — Editor’s note: The video above is from a previous story. The local David vs. Goliath saga continued this week with more questions than answers as Facebook continued to prevent a Tampa Bay area arts center from posting anything to its own account. 10 Tampa Bay previously told readers about how Facebook, in April 2021, had banned the Dunedin Fine Art Center for posting an artist’s award-winning photograph that featured a nude female model’s chest. Ken Hannon, the arts center’s vice president and COO, has spent more than a year trying to get out of “Facebook Jail,” as he puts it, over that one image. There was no advanced warning. Just a total ban. In fact, it was only about a minute after Hannon first posted the photo in question that he received a seemingly-automated notice saying the post had run afoul of Facebook’s Community Standards. Moments after he clicked the button to begin the review process back in 2021, the arts center’s official business page and Hannon’s personal page were both disabled. He…
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