'Facebook needs an editor': media experts urge change after photo dispute

Controversy over a censored Vietnam war photo highlights concerns over the social network's vital - if reluctant - role as users' primary news source

Tensions between Facebook and the news industry boiled over this week when the social media corporation censored a Pulitzer-winning Vietnam war photo, because it featured a naked child and violated site "community standards".

The dispute over the "napalm girl" image, which a Norwegian writer published in a post about historic warfare photography, ended Friday when Facebook reversed its decision, acknowledging the "global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time".