Facebook will no longer allow Holocaust denialism in a policy change the platform announced on Monday.

The decision was made in part due to the “well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally” and the “alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust,” according to a statement from Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of content policy.

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