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On January 30, 2026, Melania premiered as a carefully staged cultural event, another example of how contemporary media turns personality into spectacle.That same day, i reposted a link on Facebook to my 2016 project, “Facebook - log In or Sign Up” (g03.org), created during the year of Trump’s first election. The work combined close-up GIF images of Melania with the code of the Facebook login page — merging portrait and platform, face and interface. Soon after, the site was deactivated by Google and labeled a “Dangerous Site,” accompanied by warnings to delete its files. What had been conceived as a reflection on visibility and digital identity was treated as a threat by automated systems. In a moment shaped by what some describe as moral pageantry — where public gestures of judgment often matter more than nuance — and by platforms that increasingly mediate social reality through algorithms and AI, this removal felt symptomatic rather than exceptional. Visibility today is conditional. Access is governed. And the line between image, code, and control grows thinner each year.
https://g03.org/melania.html
