The Cheat Sheet · "We find Holocaust denial to be repugnant and ignorant, just as we object to many of the other ideas expressed on Facebook.... We’ve come to the conclusion that the mere statement of denying the Holocaust is not a violation of our policies. We recognize people’s right to be factually wrong about historical events.”

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"We find Holocaust denial to be repugnant and ignorant, just as we object to many of the other ideas expressed on Facebook.... We’ve come to the conclusion that the mere statement of denying the Holocaust is not a violation of our policies. We recognize people’s right to be factually wrong about historical events.”

A Facebook spokesperson on why the social networking site doesn’t remove Holocaust-denying content from their site.

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W.T.EFF Facebook? What if we denied slavery happened? Or Japanese internment? If you can’t get behind FACTS, what do you...
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Upholding freedom of speech while simultaneously calling these people morons? Brilliant.
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morgulblade said: The comments on the post are almost worst than Facebook’s decision itself.
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This, again, makes me think that it was...right thing to quit Facebook.
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