We at Facebook don’t look at ourselves as editors. We are a technology company, not a media enterprise. It is you who are the editors, said Facebook representative Patrick Walker to a packed hall on Redaktørforeningens traditional autumn meeting yesterday.
Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most powerful editors in the world, claimed however, the Aftenposten editor, Espen Egil Hansen.
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Was shocked
in Particular Aftenposten editor, Espen Egil Hansen led the way in what can be called a Norwegian revolt against Facebook earlier in the fall. It all started as familiar with that author Tom Egeland on Facebook published one of the world’s strongest krigsfoto, “The Terror of War”, where the nine-year-old vietnamese girl Kim Phuc fleeing from the american napalmbomber. Facebook deleted the image because it broke with their own rules for the publication of the nude photos. Really speed in the cases was the then Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg, was censored on Facebook when she shared this photo.
– You must understand how shocked we were, when even the prime minister was censored, said the culture Linda Hofstad Helleland to the Facebook representative, Patrick Walker during yesterday’s debate meetings, which came into being precisely because it shocked kulturministeren made common cause with the Norwegian association of Norwegian editors, and invited Facebook to Norway.
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Arrogance
the Boss himself, Mark Zuckerberg, came not. Instead he sent his “Director of Media Partnership”, Patrick Walker. And Walker came to us with what has become something of a standarsvar for Facebook: “We operate with the technology, not the media”. But Walker said now agree with the Norwegian “rebels” that just Vietnam-photo from 1972 “belong on Facebook”. He said the Norwegian rebellion had consequences internally in the company, and that Facebook has changed its own rules. Even though it should show up in the nude photos that violate Facebook’s publiseringsregler, a separate team will now also consider whether the current picture is of “high importance” and “newsworthiness”.
– This is just such judgments that makes you to the editors, believed the Aftenposten, Espen Egil Hansen, who criticised Facebook for being arrogant and for being too poor to respond to critical questions from a critical press.
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Nudity
– We should be better to communicate outwardly, and answer questions, accepted Walker, that still doesn’t fravek its hovedposisjon: Facebook is a technology company.
– We are a platform for the spread of the news, he said to redaktørsalen.
” We create the platform, we’re not content. Nevertheless, we have to have rules for what we publish, but with over one billion posts on Facebook every day, we have to use algorithms for dealing with them. The picture from Vietnam was also a picture of a naked child, but we see today that such a picture should not be censored.
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