⁍ Facebook Inc said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.

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⁍ The move comes two years after Mark Zuckerberg said in a 2018 interview that while he found Holocaust denial deeply offensive, he did not think Facebook should delete such content.

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⁍ ‘I’ve struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust,’ said Zuckerberg.

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– Facebook is updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust, reports Reuters. The move comes two years after Mark Zuckerberg said in a 2018 interview with Recode that while he found Holocaust denial deeply offensive, he did not think Facebook should delete such content. “I’ve struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Monday. “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.” The company said that starting later this year, it would also direct people searching for terms associated with the Holocaust or its denial to credible information off Facebook. The World Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee praised the move. “For several years, the World Jewish Congress has advocated for Facebook to remove Holocaust denial content from its platform,’ that group said in a statement. This summer, civil rights groups organized a widespread Facebook advertising boycott to try to pressure social media companies to act against hate speech on their platforms. “This has been years in the making. Having personally engaged with @Facebook on the issue, I can attest the ban on Holocaust denial is a big deal,” tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, one of the boycott’s organizers.