To block content that rejects or distorts the Holocaust: Facebook.

On Monday, Facebook Inc said it was reviewing its hate speech policies to prohibit all material that rejects the Holocaust or distorts it.
In a 2018 interview with the tech website Recode, the move comes two years after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said that although he considers Holocaust denial profoundly insulting, he did not agree that Facebook could erase such posts.
“In a Facebook post on Monday, Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, wrote,” I have struggled with the conflict between standing for free speech and the hurt created by diminishing or ignoring the tragedy of the Holocaust.
“As I’ve seen evidence indicating a rise in anti-Semitic activity, my own thinking has changed, as has our broader hate speech laws,” he said. The social media firm said that it will now steer users requesting words linked to the Holocaust or its denial of credible information from Facebook, beginning later this year.
This move was praised by the World Jewish Congress as well as the American Jewish Committee.
“The World Jewish Congress has been advocating that Facebook delete Holocaust denial material from its website for many years,” the organization said in a statement.
Civil rights advocates organized a widespread Facebook advertisement boycott this summer to attempt to persuade social media giants to respond on their sites against hate speech.
This has been in planning for years. I can testify to the prohibition of Holocaust Denial from having directly worked with @Facebook on the subject, “tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, one of the leaders of the boycott.” He said, “Glad it really happened.”
The Convention on Jewish Material Allegations Against Germany has advocated for the ban of Holocaust denial content on Facebook and called for Zuckerberg to visit survivors via its social media initiative # NoDenyingIt.
Facebook suspended certain anti-Semitic conspiracy theories & stereotypes in August. The organization referenced a new poll in its blog post that showed about a quarter of adults in the U.S. aged 18-39 saying they felt the Holocaust was a lie, that it was misunderstood or that they were not aware.
The business said it would not “happen immediately” to implement its new policies.
“There is a lot of content that can breach these rules, and it will take a bit of time to educate our compliance reviewers and programmes,” it added.