Facebook accused of censorship after removal of iconic “napalm girl” photo

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Facebook has been accused of censorship by Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg in a growing spat about the free content ad network’s removal of a post featuring the Pulitzer-prize winning historic Vietnam War image of “napalm girl.”

The social media network deleted a post made by the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten based on the fact that the image contained child nudity. On Friday morning, the editor-in-chief of the paper published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, in which he described the Facebook chief as “the world’s most powerful editor”—a sticky note increasingly being slapped on the multi-billionaire’s back, even as he continues to refuse to accept any such tag.

Just last week, Zuckerberg wryly said at a Facebook event in Germany: “we’re a tech company, we’re not a media company.”

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Source: Ars Technica – Facebook accused of censorship after removal of iconic “napalm girl” photo