The World’s Most Powerful Editor

September 9, 2016 | 1 book mentioned 1

“I think you are abusing your power, and I find it hard to believe that you have thought it through thoroughly.” Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten, has published a front-page letter to Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook censored an iconic image from the Vietnam war. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack was deleted from a post about seven images “that changed the history of warfare.”

Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters, wrote for us about the legacy of that infamous photo a few years back.

 

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