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Facebook has banned the publication of an ad for Walla Walla onions - because they broadcast sex

Yes, this is not a joke.

A seed store tried to market the Walla Walla onions (which have nothing to do with us) and were rejected because Facebook's algorithm decided it was a woman's bare breast.

Facebook has already apologized

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Thursday, October 15, 2020, 12:00 p.m.

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Facebook became (again) a joke after it blocked an advertisement for onions because it was "overly sexy."

The social media giant blocked the post because its algorithm thought the onions were a woman's bare breast.

A Canadian seed store has tried to promote the sale of Walla Walla onion seeds through Facebook.

But Facebook rejected the advertisement for Ew Gaze's seed company because "the products were presented in a way that was too sexy."

The message received by the company is: "The items or services advertised on Facebook cannot have sexual content."

The disqualified image shows a total of some onions in a pile in the basket and some onions cut next to them.

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The ad suspected of being a woman's bare breast (screenshot)

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Does it look like a woman's breast to you?

Walla Walla Onion Rejected (Screenshot)

Store manager Jackson McLean, from St. John's in Newfoundland, said: "You have to have a very developed imagination to think this image is sexy in a certain way."

He said the onions are now selling amazingly and they call them "sexy onions" on their website.

He shared a screenshot of the vegetables and Facebook's rejection message: "I just got a message that the picture we used for our Walla Walla onions is too sexy, can you see that?".

And here's Facebook's explanation (screenshot)

Although he asked the company to reconsider the rejection, he did not hear from them for days, according to the New York Post.

Facebook then blamed their algorithm for the mistake.

Meg Sinclair, Facebook Canada's communications director, told the BBC: "We have automated technology to prevent nude advertising in our apps, but for some reason the technology does not differentiate between Walla Walla onions, and anything else. We have approved the ad and we are sorry for the problems."

Social media users found the confusion very funny when one wrote, "It brings tears to my eyes."

Another comment claimed that: "It's amazing, I have a very developed imagination and all I see is onions. What am I missing?".

A third added that science has gone too far and that humans: "taught machines to think dirty."

We were also surprised - especially to find out that there is an onion company called Walla Walla and we hurried to check if it was a copyright infringement.

We discovered that the name Walla Walla is the name of an Indian tribe that once lived in southeast Washington and is now the name of a town located in the same place, where over 30,000 residents live and where the Walla Walla onion factory is located - a sweet onion that arrived from Corsica.

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