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Facebook Prohibits Holocaust denial amid Quick Growth in”deceptive” Articles

Facebook's Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017.

Expand / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as observed in 2017. (charge: Jason Doiy | Getty Images)

Facebook now is, once more, theoretically frees up authorities against hate language, now using a new policy forbidding Holocaust denial on this stage.

The shift is a result of some”well-documented growth in anti-Semitism worldwide,” Facebook executive Monika Bickert composed at a corporate site article today.

The coverage would be a complete 180 to get Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who at a 2018 interview especially described Holocaust denial because the sort of”profoundly offensive” speech that he {} ought to be allowed on the stage. The Following Day, amid blowback, he”clarified” his place:

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