, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook didn't remove Holocaust-denying content because it must allow for the possibility that users are making unintentional mistakes. "I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong," Zuckerberg said of users who share that type of content.
In Monday's post announcing the shift, Facebook said: "Our decision is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people." It cited a recent survey in which nearly 25% of American adults between 18 and 39 said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or exaggerated, or weren't sure.
"I've struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a. "My own thinking has evolved as I've seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech.
FB sucks
Thank you. Facebook
jccordero28 Facebook deletes accounts that acknowledge ancient Palestine & its indigenous people. Then there is this: googlemaps denies Palestine ever or actually existed as a country. Imagine disappearing a whole country?
Fake news will remove the truth and inject lies as truth
Holocaust is a lie from the fake Jews
DisTORT? 7 MILLION Jews died, how you going to DISTORT? 40MILLION people died in WWII, GET SOME FKING GRASP ON REALITY.
facebook can they ban poo-anon morons too
It is factual, idiots need to be banned.
No wonder Facebook is a Jewish application
Isn’t this more troubling that it took them until today to ban this content
Ilhan Omar is now in FB purgatory... About time.
Free speech was a good idea while it lasted. 'but it's a personal company' No shit, Sherlock. It's also one of the primary communication mediums in the US. If speech isn't free there, what's the f*cking point?
wow, what a . . . powerful . . .and . . .ummm brave . . ..stance Mr Zuckerberg. You are an . . . inspiration?
Oh... that they will ban? Hu? Other right-wing nuts and their lies about all sorts of BS they will NOT ban.... Okay, good to know!
Good very good
Prepping for the Presidential and Senate transition. FYI...Dems are coming after you.
Did you run this by Dr. Kushner ?
Denying the Holocaust is extremely ignorant and stupid but banning content that denies it is also also ignorant and stupid. FreeSpeech
How about we all just delete Facebook and start to get along again like we did in the 90s?
I think what people need to do is get off of social media !!
He finally saw the obvious.
Ban Facebook
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Facebook is where you meet to lose IQ, one post at a time.
10 years later ... thanks Mark for taking your sweet time.
what is their position on the moon landing?
good
Bold move...
No one has morals like Zuckerberg $FB
3% up FB
Facebook needs more oversight and regulation. This is getting ridiculous.
Something about closing barn door when cows already out.
When something is soooo true, you have to ban people from saying it's not. wew
Took long enough, smh
I agree with that. This falls into the black-and-white category of indisputable fact, not opinion like every other debate these days.
Facebook is dead
Banging is policing and violating of free speech, right? This is no difference from communist behavior in reality. Labeling them false will be a much better approach as it gives freedom and choice to people instead of making a decision for them.
You got your own private holocaust running finkd and you cant denie that
Truth Live !
FB is a private company and can set rules on their site.
markzucky is a trump ass kisser he has no morals! He is helping the WS KKK & trump everyone should shut down their Facebook. FB shareholders should fire him!
Facebook the watch dog. Sound eerie to say the least.
Zuck better reevaluate having control. I see a pitchfork in his future
I rarely go on Facebook anymore. The platform is filled with such misinformation that I can’t stomach it. Allowing it destroyed its platform.
FB is poison
Will they ban anyone suggesting corona shutdowns now that the WHO denounced them?
You are only allowed to believe what Facebook wants you to believe.
Bro facebook has been around for how long lmao
It shouldn’t have gone this far. Should have been an automatic denial.
They had to reverse a stance regarding the holocaust? What the fuck
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