Facebook Inc. said it would begin removing Holocaust denials or distortions from its social-media platforms, a move that follows years of complaints from civil-rights groups that the company tolerated hate speech and enabled the spread of misinformation. The move—announced Monday in a company blog post and on Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Facebook page—is the latest step by Facebook in broadening its approach to content removals. Typically the company sought removals in instances where the material posed imminent...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 12, 2020 19:21 UTC