Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts

Holocaust survivors are lending ir voices to a campaign targeting Facebook he Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of Nazi gecide from social media site.

Coordinated by New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, #DenyingIt campaign launched Wednesday uses Facebook itself to make survivors' entreaties to Zuckerberg heard with one video per day being posted urging him to remove Holocaust denying groups, ps and posts as hate speech.

Facebook says it alrey takes down Holocaust denial posts in countries where it is illegal and elsewhere removes "any post that celebrates, defends, or attempts to justify Holocaust."

campaign comes as Zuckerberg went before Congress as part of a U.S. House investigation into Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apples of dominance in industry.

first #DenyingIt video features many Holocaust survivors, including Pinchas Gutter, making direct appeals to Zuckerberg.

"Mark, re is denying it. Holocaust was real," Gutter says in video.

Lisa Kaplan, Founder of Alea Group, which works to stop misinformation on web, says Facebook's reluctance to take down Holocaust denial posts is a least partially for financial reasons.

" financial bottom line likely comes into play any time you're having shareable content, you're keeping people on platform more and that sharable content isn't always morally sound," said Kaplan.

In an interview with Associated Press, Holocaust survivor Eva Szepesi talked about how important it is that younger generations kw what happened in World War II.

"This is my story, and it must t be denied. That's why I wanted this so much, because of young people and next generation, so that y kw what happened, what can happen again. y are t responsible for what happened n, but y are responsible for future. And that's why it would be nice if Mr. Zuckerberg would remove se denials from Facebook," said Szepesi.

Representatives from Claims Conference said y initially h only planned to collect a few videos but that reception among survivors has been so strong that y w expect as many as 50 videos.