guardian
Facebook has decided to allow users to share an iconic Vietnam war photo featuring a naked girl after CEO Mark Zuckerberg was accused of abusing his power when the social media company censored the image.
Norway’s largest newspaper published a front-page open letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, slamming Facebook’s decision to censor the historic photograph of nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack and calling on the CEO to live up to his role as “the world’s most powerful editor”.
Facebook initially defended its decision to remove the image, saying, “While we recognize that this photo is iconic, it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others.”
On Friday, following widespread criticisms from news organizations and media experts across the globe, Facebook reversed its decision, saying in a statement to the Guardian: “After hearing from our community, we looked again at how our Community Standards were applied in this case. An image of a naked child would normally be presumed to violate our Community Standards, and in some countries might even qualify as child pornography. In this case, we recognize the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time.”
The statement continued: “Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance, the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed.”
Facebook also said it would “adjust our review mechanisms to permit sharing of the image going forward”. The company said it would be available for sharing “in the coming days” and that it is “always looking to improve our policies to make sure they both promote free expression and keep our community safe”.
Espen Egil Hansen, editor-in-chief and CEO of Aftenposten, had accused Zuckerberg of thoughtlessly “abusing your power” over the social media site that has become a key distributer of news around the globe. He wrote: “I am upset, disappointed – well, in fact even afraid – of what you are about to do to a mainstay of our democratic society.”
The controversy stems from Facebook’s decision to delete a post by Norwegian writer Tom Egeland that featured The Terror of War, a Pulitzer prize-winning photograph by Nick Ut that showed children, including Phúc, fleeing an attack. Egeland’s post discussed “seven photographs that changed the history of warfare” – a group to which the “napalm girl” image certainly belongs.
Facebook on Friday further said it would be reaching out to publishers to discuss the debate.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'in fact']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.266429840142 0.229887763892 116% => OK
Verbs: 0.158081705151 0.158761421928 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0603907637655 0.0866891130778 70% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0284191829485 0.046263068375 61% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0515097690941 0.0685040099705 75% => OK
Prepositions: 0.103019538188 0.118717715034 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0532859680284 0.0351676179071 152% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.26090973878 2.67179642975 122% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0355239786856 0.0309702414327 115% => OK
Particles: 0.00177619893428 0.00188951952338 94% => OK
Determiners: 0.0852575488455 0.0887237588012 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0088809946714 0.0209618222197 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0159857904085 0.0139019557991 115% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2870.0 2387.08602151 120% => OK
No of words: 441.0 408.028673835 108% => OK
Chars per words: 6.50793650794 5.86048508987 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.48200974243 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.421768707483 0.338922669872 124% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.344671201814 0.251872472559 137% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.260770975057 0.174417080927 150% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.199546485261 0.112833075102 177% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26090973878 2.67179642975 122% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 212.727598566 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59410430839 0.524397521467 113% => OK
Word variations: 74.207886552 59.2087087015 125% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 20.6684587814 48% => More sentences wanted.
Sentence length: 44.1 20.5533526081 215% => Sentence lengths are too long.
Sentence length SD: 149.655237129 48.84282405 306% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 287.0 120.699889404 238% => Less chars per sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 44.1 20.5533526081 215% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 0.8 0.644075263715 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 9.0 4.5376344086 198% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.54480286738 0% => OK
Readability: 78.5671201814 45.7405998639 172% => OK
Elegance: 1.77611940299 1.45489161554 122% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0129034838281 0.300154397459 4% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.172578200826 0.103427244359 167% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0634831051296 0.0752933317313 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.81568634718 0.497263757937 164% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.159893901693 0.151897553556 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00622822489805 0.114077575197 5% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0186846746942 0.0781384742642 24% => The sentences are too close to each other.
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.266910205065 0.336927656856 79% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0685859262316 0.067059652881 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00616376722099 0.210909579961 3% => The content is off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0174337663985 0.0618886996521 28% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8870967742 34% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.86379928315 155% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.91756272401 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 3.0 8.42114695341 36% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 2.4623655914 244% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.75985663082 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 9.0 13.6433691756 66% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.