Barrister Nicholas Bender, who is representing Jewish community groups, is now questioning Benjamin Good about a Holocaust denial post on Instagram which stayed on the site for four years.<\/p>\n
Bender says that in September 2020, a meme was posted on Instagram of Squidward \u2013 a cartoon character from the television series SpongeBob SquarePants.<\/p>\n
The post included a speech bubble that said, \u201cFun Facts About The Holocaust,\u201d which had \u201cfalse and distorted claims about the Holocaust\u201d, according to Meta\u2019s Oversight Board which has the job of reviewing whether content should be removed or retained.<\/p>\n
Bender says the post questioned the number of victims of the Holocaust, \u201csuggesting it is not possible that six million Jewish people could have been murdered based on supposed population numbers the user quotes for before and after the Second World War\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe post also questions the existence of crematoria at Auschwitz by claiming the chimneys were built after the war, and that world leaders at the time did not acknowledge the Holocaust in their memoirs,\u201d says the board\u2019s report which Bender is quoting from.<\/p>\n
Bender says that in October 2020, the month after the Holocaust denial post, Meta changed its hate speech community standard to explicitly prohibit Holocaust denial.<\/p>\n
Despite this, that post remained on Instagram until January 2024: despite the policy changes, six complaints and two \u201chuman reviewers\u201d assessing the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barrister Nicholas Bender, who is representing Jewish community groups, is now questioning Benjamin Good about a Holocaust denial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-781877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}