‘I Just Got Really Mad’: The Norwegian Editor Tackling Facebook on Censorship

WRITTEN BY BEN SULLIVAN

September 22, 2016 // 05:00 AM EST

An open letter splashed across the front page of a Norwegian newspaper on September 8 plunged Facebook’s position on censorship into the global spotlight. Espen Egil Hansen, editor-in-chief of Aftenposten, railed against Facebook’s removal of the iconic Vietnam war photo of a petrified, Napalm-burnt Kim Phúc, and in doing so sparked a worldwide conversation about the role Facebook plays in news distribution.

“I just got mad, I just got really mad,” Hansen told me over the phone. “I decided to address it then and there, and write the letter.”

Hansen’s letter was published in Aftenposten’s print and online editions, and called for Mark Zuckerberg—“the world’s most powerful editor”—to act with better judgement in how news is disseminated to Facebook users.

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