Facebook to ban Holocaust denialism
Facebook will direct people searching for terms associated with the Holocaust or its denial to credible information off Facebook
12 October 2020 - 18:02
Birmingham/Bengaluru — Facebook said on Monday that it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denied or distorted the Holocaust.
The move comes two years after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a 2018 interview with tech website Recode said that while he found Holocaust denial deeply offensive, he did not think Facebook should delete such content...
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