Disgusting anti-Semitic Facebook posts mocking Anne Frank and saying the holocaust was a hoax are still online- despite having already been flagged to the company.
An investigation by The Times, showed links to a website selling ‘holohoax’ books and cartoons depicting Jewish people as hook-nosed cockroaches.
There were also posts mocking Anne Frank who was a victim of the Holocaust.
The community guidelines say Facebook is committed to removing hateful speech on its platform.
But holocaust denial is not classed as hate speech.
The investigation found a number of posts mocking Anne Frank who died in the Holocaust
At the main infamous gates at Auschwitz Birkenau in Poland. Arbeit Macht Frei translates to (Work brings freedom)
It comes after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said while he finds Holocaust denial ‘deeply offensive’ he does not believe the content should be banned from the social media platform.
He said: ‘It’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent. I just think, as abhorrent as some of those examples are, I think the reality is also that I get things wrong when I speak publicly.’
It’s been a rough few weeks for Mr Zuckerberg after more than £100 billion was wiped off the company’s share value.
The investigation found a number of extremely offensive posts with one showing the Star of David, with the caption: ‘the worst cancer I’ve ever seen.’
Despite the posts being flagged to moderators at Facebook, many of them remained online.
Dave Rich, head of policy at Jewish group the Community Security Trust, said: ‘Holocaust denial by its definition is anti-Semitic.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (pictured). A spokesman for Facebook said it did not allow any anti-Semitic hate speech or incitement of violence of any kind
‘Even by Facebook’s own rules many of the posts left on the site include extra text that incites hatred against Jews.
‘Holocaust denial is not a wrong opinion or alternative history — the whole point of it is to incite hatred against Jews by claiming there is a conspiracy.’
Politicians also attacked the social media site for anti-semitic posts.
Labour’s Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs select committee, said: ‘Facebook are providing people with a huge global platform to incite racial hatred and to deliberately spread lies that fuel antisemitism.
‘They can’t just shrug their shoulders and pretend it has nothing to do with them.
‘What is the point of them even pretending to have community standards or social responsibility if they turn a blind eye to the promotion of violence and extremism?’
Damian Collins, chair of the culture, media and sport select committee told The Times: ‘These disgraceful anti-Semitic posts have no place in society and no place on social media.
‘Hiding behind freedom of speech has long been the defence of social media companies, but there is absolutely no excuse for the hosting of this vile content on Facebook.
‘I urge Facebook to finally take action and properly implement its community guidelines.’
A spokeswoman for Facebook said that it did not allow anti-Semitic hate speech or incitement of violence of any kind.