Photo of a Starving Girl in Yemen Prompts Facebook to Remove Posts of Article – The New York Times

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Photo of a Starving Girl in Yemen Prompts Facebook to Remove Posts of Article

Facebook later restored the posts, which showed a photo of an unclothed child. “We know this is an important image of global significance,” a spokeswoman said.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/business/facebook-blocks-nyt-yemen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The article included several images of emaciated children. Some were crying. Some were listless. One, a 7-year-old girl named Amal, was shown gazing to the side, with flesh so paper-thin that her collarbone and rib cage were plainly visible. Tens of thousands of readers shared the article on Facebook, but some got a message notifying them that the post was not in line with Facebook’s community standards.