Facebook vows to remove content denying the Holocaust two years in reversal for Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook has been under pressure from critics to take a more aggressive stance against harmful and unwarranted conspiracy theories, like Holocaust denial,and other misinformation circulating on the platform.

The company said earlier this month that it is banning pages that promote the extremist conspiracy group QAnon from its platform.

The move to ban content denying the Holocaust comes more than two years after Zuckerbergdefended Facebook's decision not to remove such posts.

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