The decision comes amid a push by Holocaust survivors around the world who lent their voices to a campaign targeting Zuckerberg beginning 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 used Facebook itself to make the survivors entreaties to Zuckerberg heard, posting one video per day urging him to remove Holocaust-denying groups, pages and posts as hate speech.
Facebook said Monday that the new policy is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people.
Ive struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust, he wrote.
He said he did not think Holocaust deniers were intentionally getting it wrong, and that as long as posts were not calling for harm or violence, even offensive content should be protected.
Its a very important statement and its a building block toward ensuring that this sort of anti-Semitism is not amplified, said Greg Schneider, the groups executive vice president.
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