This week, Mark Zuckerberg kicked off another firestorm about Facebook when he appeared to defend the intentions of Holocaust deniers on the platform. In an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, the Facebook CEO was asked why the site doesn't just remove malevolent misinformation, like the claim that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened. Zuckerberg responded with an example from his own experience.
“I'm Jewish, and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened,” he said. “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 people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong, but I think it's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.” Unless individuals are “trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone,” he went on, “you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.”
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