Kim Phuc poses Vietnamese born
Canadian Phan Thi Kim Phuc poses with the picture of her taken by
photographer Nick Ut during a napalm strike in the Vietnam war | Eric
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Facebook
backtracks on ‘napalm girl’ photo
A
Norwegian newspaper editor had complained to Mark Zuckerberg about
censorship of the historic image.
By NIRVI SHAH
9/9/16, 8:59 PM CET Updated 9/9/16, 9:00 PM CET
Facebook said late
Friday that it will allow a historic photograph of a naked girl
running from napalm attacks during the Vietnam War to be posted on
its network.
It had removed the
image posted by a Norwegian journalist of the girl because she was
nude.
Accused by the
editor of Norway’s biggest newspaper of “abusing [its] power,”
Facebook at first said it had one set of rules for everyone — and
would not make an exception because the photograph had journalistic
merit.
The social media
giant backtracked late Friday.
“After hearing
from our community, we looked again at how our Community Standards
were applied in this case,” a company spokesperson said. “An
image of a naked child would normally be presumed to violate our
Community Standards, and in some countries might even qualify as
child pornography. In this case, we recognize the history and global
importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time.
Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance,
the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the
community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on
Facebook where we are aware it has been removed.”
Espen Egil Hansen,
editor-in-chief and CEO of Aftenposten, published an open letter to
Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday after Facebook blocked Associated Press
photographer Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph from 1972
in a post about iconic images.
“I think you are
abusing your power, and I find it hard to believe that you have
thought it through thoroughly,” Hansen wrote in his letter to
Zuckerberg.
The company said it
will also examine how it reviews other images in the future.
“We will also
adjust our review mechanisms to permit sharing of the image going
forward. It will take some time to adjust these systems but the photo
should be available for sharing in the coming days. We are always
looking to improve our policies to make sure they both promote free
expression and keep our community safe, and we will be engaging with
publishers and other members of our global community on these
important questions going forward.”
Alex Spence
contributed reporting.
Authors:
Nirvi Shah
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