Zuckerberg’s comments blew up like a Roman candle across the world, and he emailed me, trying to clarify what he had said. “I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that,” he wrote, even though that was exactly what he had done. Still, Mark allowed Holocaust deniers to stay on the platform for two more years, when he decided that the platform should “prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.”

