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Facebook Reverses Policy to Ban Holocaust Denial Content Following Online Campaign By Survivors

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According to a recent survey of adults in the US aged 18-39, almost a quarter said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, that it had been exaggerated or they weren’t…
Tech giant Facebook updated its hate speech policy on Monday to ban any content that rejects or distorts the reality of the Holocaust. The decision comes following a campaign spearheaded by Holocaust survivors around the world to target Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this summer, urging him to take action to remove Holocaust denial posts from the social media site. Coordinated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the #NoDenyingIt campaign had Holocaust survivors use Facebook to appeal directly to Zuckerberg, posting one video per day urging him to remove Holocaust-denying groups and posts as hate speech.

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