Two years ago Zuck told @karaswisher “I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different..."
On Monday, #Zuckerberg said his thoughts on holocaust denial had changed "with rising anti-Semitism, we're expanding our policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.”
#Zuck says "I've struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust.”
Grave harm indeed with the Pew Research Centre stating ‘Half of Americans don’t know 6m Jews were killed in the Holocaust'. pewforum.org/2020/01/22/wha… 
RFOB member @shoshanazuboff speaks to our concerns: “If he does not accompany this decision with what so many have been calling for, a complete retooling of how the business model works, then it will just be another whack-a-mole content moderation plan" time.com/5899201/facebo…
Read the full Facebook post here: facebook.com/zuck/posts/101…
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