Controversy Mounts Over Facebook 'Napalm Girl' Censorship
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Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg joined escalating protests over censorship by Facebook, posting the iconic Vietnam War picture of the “Napalm Girl” to her profile and re-publishing a mock-edited version after it was removed by the social network.
Ms. Solberg’s post was the latest in a row over photographer Nick Ut’s Pulitzer-prize winning picture of a naked Vietnamese girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running down a road after being injured in a napalm attack on her village in 1972.
The controversy started as Facebook removed the picture from thriller writer Tom Egeland’s profile because of its rules on nudity. Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten then joined in and published the picture on its Facebook page, which was also censored. The newspaper on Friday also published an open letter to the social media’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to protest the action.
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