Outcry prompts Facebook to reverse censorship of iconic Vietnam war image
28 October 2016 - 17:46
San Francisco/Washington — After Facebook’s removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred international uproar last month, the social network’s executives backtracked and cleared it for publication. That was after the image, showing a naked Vietnamese girl burned by napalm, was used in company training sessions as an example of a post that should be removed, two former Facebook employees told Reuters.
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