The Guardian obtained leaked documents including training manuals which explained that the social media group regards bullying as "an attack on private persons with the intent to upset of silence them". It stated that you are only a private person if you are not a public figure.
Anyone with more than 100,000 followers will be considered a public person with "no exceptions for minors".
Under a headline "People excluded from protection", it read: "We want to exclude certain people who are famous or controversial in their own right and don't deserve our protection."
Alongside Jesus, any political and religious leader before 1900, Osama Bin Laden, mass murderer Charles Mason, violators of hate speech rules, rapists and domestic abusers will also be excluded from protection.
Monika Bickert, head of global policy management at Facebook said: "We allow more robust speech around public figures but we still remove speech about public figures that crosses the line into hate speech, threats, or harassment.
Meanwhile, Facebook has made a policy U-turn by insisting it does not allow the mocking of people with disabilities, contrary to documents the Guardian obtained that were given to moderators in the last twelve months.
