Instead, he said, Facebook penalized hoaxers and misinformation spreaders with its algorithm, which ensures that such posts get far less traction and views in the News Feed. It came on the back a furor over conspiracy theory website Infowars' use of Facebook, and Zuckerberg argued that the company did not feel comfortable restricting the 'voice' of its users, even if they were clearly wrong. On Wednesday, technology news site Recode published a wide-ranging interview with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Unlike other major search engines, the first page of Facebook's search results for 'Holocaust' includes a group that promotes Holocaust denialism, 'The Open Holocaust Debate.'

We also remove any content that mocks Holocaust victims or survivors.' 'Mark has made that clear – and we agree that we 'find Holocaust denial deeply offensive.' We don’t allow people to celebrate or defend or try to justify the Holocaust. 'We find Holocaust denial to be repugnant and ignorant,' a spokesperson said earlier. That did not happen in this case and we have corrected the issue.” Reached for comment, a Facebook spokesperson said they made a mistake: “Our goal is for Facebook search results to be relevant and useful to people. The same is true of Yahoo, Microsoft-owned search engine Bing, and privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo.

In contrast to Facebook's search results, if a user searches for 'Holocaust' on Google, the first-page results are a mixture of news articles, legitimate informational websites, and other results, none of which suggest the Holocaust did not occur.

The prominence of these groups in Facebook's search results reveal a gaping hole in Facebook's defenses to stop the spread of falsehoods on its service and raise new questions about the effectiveness, and seriousness, of Facebook's policies. These appear on the first page of the search results, as well as on the dedicated Groups tab of the search results. If a user searches for 'Holocaust' on Facebook, some of the top results are for user-created groups that falsely claim the Nazi murder of millions of Jews was fabricated.

When contacted about promoting Holocaust denial groups at the top of search results, Facebook said it made a mistake and had 'corrected the issue.'.

No other major search engines promote Holocaust denialism in their search results when users search for 'Holocaust.'.

This is despite cracking down on the anti-Semitic content on its algorithm so it doesn't get promoted much in its News Feed.

Facebook has been promoting Holocaust denial groups at the top of its search results.

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