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World Service,8 mins

Fury over Facebook 'Napalm girl' censorship

World Business Report

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Facebook has controversially removed the iconic image of a girl fleeing a Napalm attack during the Vietnam war from a post, on the grounds of nudity. Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten said the entire post, which was about iconic war imagery, was later deleted and the account of the reporter behind it suspended. Roger Hearing talks to editor-in-chief Espen Egil Hansen, who accuses Mark Zuckerberg of "an abuse of power". And Martin Moore, director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College London, explores some of the challenges companies like Facebook face

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