Facebook censors iconic photo, angering Norway

This combination of pictures created on September 9, 2016 shows Espen Egil Hansen (L), editor-in-chief and CEO of Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten (September 9, 2016 in Oslo) and Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg (October 28, 2015 in New Delhi). (AFP)

OSLO: Facebook faced outrage Friday for repeatedly deleting a historic Vietnam War photo, including in a post by Norway’s premier, which appears to be the first case of the social network censoring a government head.
An active social media user, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg defied Facebook early Friday by posting the photograph, which the US behemoth says violates its nudity rules.
The 1972 picture of a naked Vietnamese kid running from a napalm attack was taken by photographer Nick Ut Cong Huynh for Associated Press and is considered one of the war’s defining images. It was honored with the Pulitzer Prize.
Solberg’s post was taken down several hours later, deleted by Facebook, she said.