UPDATE: After this post was published, Facebook said in a statement that it would allow the photo in question to appear on its platform. "Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance," the company said, "the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed." ~ ~ ~Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg joined escalating protests over censorship by Facebook, posting the iconic Vietnam War picture of the "Napalm Girl" to her profile and re-publishing a mock-edited version after it was removed by the social network.Ms. Solberg's post was the latest in a row over photographer Nick Ut's Pulitzer-prize winning picture of a naked Vietnamese girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running down a road after being injured in a napalm attack on her village in 1972. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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