{"id":9413,"date":"2016-09-09T17:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2016-09-09T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:34:29","slug":"facebook-censors-a-newspapers-use-of-famous-historical-photo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/09\/09\/facebook-censors-a-newspapers-use-of-famous-historical-photo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook censors a newspaper&#8217;s use of famous historical photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of an abuse of power after Facebook censored one of the most famous images of the Vietnam war from Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/09\/09\/mark-zuckerberg-accused-of-abusing-power-after-facebook-censors\/\">Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook censors Vietnam war &#8216;napalm girl&#8217; photo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Facebook censored the use, by Norway&#8217;s largest newspaper, of a very famous historical photo from the Vietnam war, taken by a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook then censored the prime minister of Norway when she posted the censored photo on her own Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>As Facebook is becoming the leading way in which people (44% in the US) receive &#8220;news&#8221; (much of it fake news, which is another problem), Facebook&#8217;s ability to censor and control what the public sees is Orwellian.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Similarly, Facebook permits outright falsehoods to be shared widely across Facebook to millions of people every day. Facts are censored, and falsehoods are promoted on Facebook<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Facebook has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2016\/09\/09\/zuckerberg-slammed-by-norwegian-paper-over-facebook-censoring-iconic-war-photo\/\">backtracked on this<\/a>\u00a0and promises yet again to review their policies and may be fire some staff or something.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/09\/01\/youtube-to-censor-content-permitted-to-run-ads\/\">Google&#8217;s Youtube&#8217;s &#8220;censorship&#8221; via advertising policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of an abuse of power after Facebook censored one of the most famous images of the Vietnam war from Facebook. Source: Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook censors Vietnam war &#8216;napalm girl&#8217; photo Facebook censored the use, by Norway&#8217;s largest newspaper, of a very famous historical photo from the Vietnam war, taken by a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer. Facebook then censored the prime minister of Norway when she posted the censored photo on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/09\/09\/facebook-censors-a-newspapers-use-of-famous-historical-photo-2\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-uncategorized","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}