Facebook speaks out about removing 'Napalm Girl' photo

On the morning of September 13, Facebook's representative in Vietnam officially spoke out about the world's largest social network removing the photo of the Napalm girl (and it has been restored in recent days).

On the morning of September 13, Facebook's representative in Vietnam officially spoke out about the world's largest social network removing the photo of the Napalm girl (and it has been restored in recent days).

Accordingly, a Facebook representative said that they had "listened to feedback from the Facebook community and carefully reviewed how we applied the 'Community Standards' in this case."

Facebook said that normally, a nude photo of a child would be considered a violation of Facebook's 'Community Standards'. In many countries, the image would even be classified as child pornography.

However, in this case, Facebook found “the photo’s historical significance and importance as a precious documentary moment. Because of its historical significance, the decision to ‘allow sharing’ outweighs the public interest in removing the photo. Therefore, we have decided to restore the photo on Facebook,” a representative of the world’s largest social network explained.

In addition, Facebook said it will make efforts to adjust the mechanism for censoring the right to share this photo in the near future. The change process will take time, but Facebook said the photo of the Napalm baby will continue to be allowed to be shared in the following days.

According to Vietnamplus