Facebook was confronted on Friday with fierce indignation in Norway as the nation’s top newspaper, the Prime Minister and users voiced outrage over the network’s decision to censor a historic Vietnam War photo.
Facebook has been deleting from users’ pages, including that of Norwegian PM Erna Solberg, the 1972 picture of a naked Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack, one of the war’s defining images.
Taken by Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut Cong Huynh for Associated Press, the picture was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize.