By: Jessica Guynn – USA Today; usatoday.com
Holocaust denial content remains on Facebook three months after pledging to ban all content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust.”
That’s according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League, which gave Facebook a “D” for its efforts.
The ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said the report released Wednesday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, shows that Facebook and other major social media platforms are “still struggling to address anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial effectively.”
Among the pieces of content cited by the ADL that Facebook did not take down: a post promoting an anti-Semitic video that claims to expose “lies” about the Holocaust, and a private Facebook group dedicated to “Holocaust Revisionism.”
Facebook removed the content after being contacted by USA TODAY.