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Facebook Forced To Stop Banning Pictures Of Starving Yemeni Child After Public Outcry
Facebook has been forced to stop removing posts featuring a photo of a starving seven-year-old Yemeni girl following a backlash by users.
The image of emaciated Amal Hussain was accompanied a disturbing but brutally honest New York Times report from the war-ravaged country.
The journalists chose the picture to illustrate the death toll and suffering inflicted on Yemen by Saudi Arabia
RT reports: The atrocities in Yemen don’t make poignant headlines in Western mainstream media as often as stories about chemical weapons in Syria or ‘Russian meddling,’ as the conflict usually gets sidelined in the press, but there are notable exceptions. ‘The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War’ was the title of a grim report published by the NYT on Friday.
An image of a starved child named Amal Hussain was chosen by the journalists to illustrate the horrible death toll and suffering inflicted on the small Arab nation of Yemen by the armed intervention of its Saudi neighbor.
Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen has pushed millions to the brink of starvation. Our journalists documented the disturbing toll. https://t.co/xeH9wlGcwE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 27, 2018
Readers quickly began sharing the story on Facebook. They were surprised to learn that the company had been removing their posts for supposedly violating the social network’s ‘sexual material’ guidelines.
..@facebook blocked my post on @declanwalsh‘s gripping story about the famine killing children in Yemen. “This post goes against our community standards.” Read it here: https://t.co/UXQcAENxft
— Frances Robles (@FrancesRobles) October 27, 2018
So facebook has blocked a @nytimes Times article I shared yesterday by @declanwalsh on #Yemen titled “The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen”
