“Facebook this morning announced a significant change in how it approaches Holocaust denial content on its social network. For years, the company has been criticized for not taking down this extremely offensive form of content in favor of allowing free speech and distancing itself from taking on the responsibilities of a traditional publisher. Today, it’s reversing that position, saying it will now update its hate speech policy to ‘prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.’ The company said it made the decision amid a growing number of online hate speech attacks as part of Facebook’s newer efforts to fight the spread of hate speech on its platforms.”
“‘We have banned more than 250 white supremacist organizations and updated our policies to address militia groups and QAnon,’ explained Facebook in an announcement. ‘We also routinely ban other individuals and organizations globally, and we took down 22.5 million pieces of hate speech from our platform in the second quarter of this year. Following a year of consultation with external experts, we recently banned anti-Semitic stereotypes about the collective power of Jews that often depicts them running the world or its major institutions,’ the company said” – Tech Crunch.