Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to ban all Islamophobic content on the site.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan
The South Asia country's leader has penned a letter to highlight the "growing Islamophobia" being spread across social media.
And following the CEO's announcement earlier this month, that Facebook will ban all Holocaust denial content, Khan wants the same rules to apply to hateful content aimed at Islam.
In the letter, the Pakistani government wrote: "I would ask you to place a similar ban on Islamophobia and hate against Islam for Facebook that you have put in place for the Holocaust."
It comes weeks after Zuckerberg defended Facebook's decision to prohibit "any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust".
The billionaire acknowledged that he's personally "struggled with the tension" between free speech and censorship, but his thinking about the issue has evolved over recent years.
He wrote in a post on Facebook: "My own thinking has evolved as I've seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech.
"Drawing the right lines between what is and isn't acceptable speech isn't straightforward, but with the current state of the world, I believe this is the right balance."
By contrast, Zuckerberg insisted two years ago that such posts should not automatically be removed for "getting it wrong".
He reflected at the time: "I'm Jewish and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened.
"I find it deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong."
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