Facebook was accused of censoring history by refusing to publish one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War.
The prime minister of Norway joined a global campaign against the social network yesterday by posting on Facebook the 1972 picture of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack. Erna Solberg was protesting against Facebook’s decision to ban a Norwegian author after he published the image. “I support a healthy, open and free debate. But I say no to this type of censorship,” she wrote. Facebook routinely removes pictures of naked children.
A Norwegian author who posted the image on Facebook was banned by the social media network
Within hours Ms Solberg’s entry had been taken down. “What Facebook does by removing images of this kind... is to edit our common history,” Ms Solberg wrote. Kim Phuc was nine when she