Mark Zuckerberg

The powerful faces behind Facebook

Credit bills, debit usage locations and bank balance details were requested by the social network to "improve and expand services."

Zuckerberg's comments sparked concern among American Jewish organizations and prompted admonition from the German government, which reminded that Holocaust denial is against the law there.

Randi Zuckerberg denounced Holocaust deniers, citing “their hateful, disgusting rhetoric” but said banning such people from social media “will not make them go away.”

There’s an elephant in the room at Facebook – and it’s called a whitewashing of antisemitism.

"There must be no place for antisemitism. This includes verbal and physical attacks on Jews as well as the denial of Holocaust," Justice Minister Katarina Barley said on Thursday.

While Facebook would not remove a post denying the Holocaust, Zuckerberg said, it would push that post down the News Feed to make sure it doesn’t go viral.

In his opening remarks, Zuckerberg said it had "become clear over the last couple of years that we haven't done enough to prevent the tools we've built from being used for harm as well."

"There are 200 million people on Facebook that list themselves as single, so clearly there's something to do here."

Zuckerberg said that Facebook is responsible for the content on its platform.