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Facebook Puts Holocaust Denial Groups in Top Search Results

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is burying Holocaust denial at the bottom of search results, but search results say otherwise.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg cited Holocaust denial in a Recode interview published Wednesday as the kind of content Facebook would allow on the site, but specifically avoid promoting on users’ news feeds. 

“That doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed,” Zuckerberg said in the interview.

Read entire article at The Daily Beast