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Facebook explicitly banned content from its feeds that denies or distorts the truth about the Holocaust, as my colleague Scott Nover reported yesterday.

It was the latest decision in a string of policy changes the company has made recently aimed at cleaning up misinformation on the platform.

It was also represented a change of heart for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who said in 2018 that Facebook should not take down content from Holocaust deniers "because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong.”

Zuckerberg even acknowledged yesterday that his own views had "evolved."

"Drawing the right lines between what is and isn’t acceptable speech isn’t straightforward, but with the current state of the world, I believe this is the right balance," he said yesterday.

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