Facebook, was once again in headlines all thanks to its controversial censor policy to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing.
However, this time the social media giant has to backtrack from its decision, the move came after Facebook erased the photograph of the napalm bombing girl , from its pages of several Norwegian authors and media outlets on Friday, but has to reverse its decision bowing to public criticism.
"An image of a naked child would normally be presumed to violate our Community Standards, and in some countries might even qualify as child pornography," Facebook said in a statement. "In this case, we recognize the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time," it added.
The image was Captured in 1972 by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nick Ut of the Associated Press, reported Al Jazeera. The image of screaming children running from a napalm attack shows a naked nine-year-old girl, Kim Phúc, at its centre.
The controversy first started when Facebook deleted a post by Norwegian writer Tom Egeland that featured the Pulitzer-winning photograph on Monday due to ‘nudity.’
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