The company will begin directing users that search for terms associated with the Holocaust to credible information from third-party sources later this year.
Facebook has long faced pressure to take action against the bevy of conspiracy theories diminishing or denying the killing of 6 million Jews by Nazis.
Content that praised the Holocaust was previously banned.
"But with rising anti-Semitism, we're expanding our policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust as well," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in blog post on Monday.
Zuckerberg had come under intense scrutiny in 2018 for defending the right of Holocaust deniers to post on his platform.
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