WJC President Ronald S. Lauder said, “Learning the facts of the Holocaust is crucial to combating all those who deliberately desecrate the memory of the millions who were murdered by Nazi Germany and its multinational accomplices in order to promote their reprehensible agenda."
Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
WJC President Ronald Lauder said the new tool could help counter Holocaust ignorance among the young. A study last fall on Gen Z views on the genocide found a widespread lack of knowledge on the subject 11% of respondents thought that Jews caused the Holocaust.
“It is saddening and disconcerting that 75 years after the end of World War II, roughly 50 percent of the world does not even know that the Holocaust occurred, or that Jews were targeted for genocide in Europe,” Lauder said in a statement.
Another factor spurring the prompt is the proliferation of hate speech on social media. Facebook has come under fire in recent years for not adequately stemming hate speech, incitement and disinformation. Last July, a campaign sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany produced videos of Holocaust survivors urging Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to take forceful steps
https://www.afinalwarning.com/488421.html (Natural News) Social media giant Facebook has said that it removing all content mentioning “stop the steal” as part of a raft of measures to supposedly stem misinformation and incitements of violence on its platform.
Facebook made this statement after confirming that it would uphold its decision last week to suspend former President Donald Trump from posting for at least two weeks. The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that, at the time, the purported risks of the president using the service during this period were too great.
In addition, the company said on Monday, Jan. 11, that it would also continue to pause all U.S. ads about politics and elections, including those from Trump.