Facebook Bans Posts Denying the Holocaust on Its Platforms
12 Octobre 2020 - 09:49PM
Dow Jones News
By Jeff Horwitz
Facebook Inc. said it would begin removing Holocaust denials
from its social media platforms, a concession following years of
complaints from civil rights groups that the company was tolerating
hate speech.
The move -- announced in a blog post Monday and on Chief
Executive Mark Zuckerberg's personal Facebook page -- is the latest
step by Facebook broadening its approach to content removals.
Typically the company sought to impose removals in instances where
the material in posts posed imminent harm to an individual or group
of people. In recent months, Facebook has banned groups and pages
devoted to spreading the wide-ranging conspiracy theory known as
QAnon as well as militia groups.
How Facebook deals with content disputing the Holocaust has been
a longstanding subject of controversy. In 2018, Mr. Zuckerberg drew
widespread condemnation from civil rights and Holocaust remembrance
organizations when he defended the right of Holocaust deniers to
express their views on Facebook. In an interview with tech
publication Recode he said he didn't believe they were
"intentionally getting it wrong."
Mr. Zuckerberg said his thinking has since changed.
"I've struggled with the tension between standing for free
expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror
of the Holocaust, " Mr. Zuckerberg wrote, citing data showing an
increase in anti-Semitic violence as helping sway his decision.
"Drawing the right lines between what is and isn't acceptable
speech isn't straightforward, but with the current state of the
world, I believe this is the right balance."
Write to Jeff Horwitz at Jeff.Horwitz@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
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