Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, who is Belgian, dressed in blackface for a charity event in 2015 – an act for which he has no apology.
The Flemish city of Aalst has also been criticized for racist images of Jews during its annual festival.
Facebook has been under renewed pressure to do more to remove racism on its platforms following the assassination of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in the hands of U.S. police in May.
In its report on Tuesday, the company said it was taking action against 22.5 million pieces of content that contained hate speech between April and June, a jump from the 9.6 million pieces of content it initially contained three months of the year in the same way. Facebook did not say if the actions refer to removal, warning labels or other measures.
On its photo-sharing platform, Instagram, the company took action against 3.3 million pieces of content, which also marks a big jump of 809,000 pieces in the first three months of the year.
