In a reversal, Facebook is increasing its enforcement against hate speech.
The change is due to a “well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally,” Facebook executive Monika Bickert wrote in a corporate blog post today.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg added in a separate post that his own thinking “has evolved” amid the growth in anti-Semitic violence in recent years.
The ban on Holocaust denial is the latest in a number of policy changes and proposals Facebook has made in the past two weeks explicitly related to hate speech, misinformation, or “influence operations.”
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Facebook bans Holocaust denial amid rapid rise in “deceptive” content, ars Technica (October 12, 2020)
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