Facebook has updated its policies on hate speech to ban content showing images of blackface. Caricatures of black people, such as "Zwarte Piet" . Zwarte Piet is a traditional Christmas character in the Netherlands and Belgium, a "helper of Saint Nicholas" who is usually represented by a white person wearing blackface.

Facebook banned Zwarte Piet's blackface images. Caricatures of black people, such as "Zwarte Piet" - translated as "Black Pete" -. Facebook that the decisions were made after consultation with "more than 60 outside experts".