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His
comments come after a dispute in September between the company
and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg after Facebook deleted
the photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, called "The
Terror of War".
"We have made a number of policy changes after The Terror of War
photo. We have improved our escalation process to ensure that
controversial stories and images get surfaced more quickly,"
said Patrick Walker, Facebook's director of media partnership
for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"(And) in the weeks ahead, we are going to begin allowing more
items that people find newsworthy, significant or important to
the public interest, even if they might otherwise violate our
standards," Walker told a meeting of the Association of
Norwegian Editors in Oslo, to which he was invited following the
row, by both the association and the Norwegian culture minister.
"We will work with our community and partners to explore exactly
how to do this," he said. "Our intent is to allow more images
and stories without posing a safety risk or showing graphic
images to minors or others who do not want to see them."
Facebook re-instated the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph after
Solberg and others accused Facebook of censorship and of editing
history by erasing the image from their accounts under its
restrictions on nudity.
Facebook backed down, ruling that the historical importance of
the photo outweighed the company's nudity rules.
(Editing by Alison Williams)
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