Norway declares war on facebook: PM and newspapers unite to attack Zuckerberg ‘censorship’
FACEBOOK is embroiled in a furious row with the Norwegian government and the country’s biggest newspaper after it “abused” its power by removing an iconic war image from its servers.
By AARON BROWN
Express.co.uk
Fri, Sep 9, 2016
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg hit out at the social network, saying it was wrong to delete Aftenposten’s iconic image of a girl fleeing a napalm attack in the Vietnam war – only to have her own post deleted.
She said: “It is highly regrettable that Facebook has removed a record of my Facebook page.
“I hope Facebook will use this opportunity to review its editing policy and takes the responsibility a large company that manages a broad communication platform should take.”
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was accused of “abusing his power” after his company deleted the iconic image of a young girl running down the street after sustaining severe burns in a napalm attack during the Vietnam war.
Captured in 1972 by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nick Ut of the Associated Press, the image of screaming children running from a napalm attack shows a naked nine-year-old girl named Kim Phuc at its centre.
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