Article 1TGYC Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on 'napalm girl' photo: 'We don't always get it right'

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on 'napalm girl' photo: 'We don't always get it right'

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Sandberg says the company will learn from its mistake after controversy over deleting famous Vietnam war photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack

Facebook will learn from a mistake it made by deleting a historic Vietnam war photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, said Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer.

The photograph was removed from several accounts on Friday, including that of the Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg, on the grounds that it violated Facebook's restrictions on nudity. It was reinstated after Solberg accused Facebook of censorship and of editing history.

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