Antisemitic Posts Are Rarely Removed By Social Media Companies, A Study Finds
Source: NPR
Five major social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, took no action to remove 84% of antisemitic posts, a new report from the Center to Counter Digital Hate (CCDH) found.
Despite promising to crack down on antisemitic hate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok did not act on these posts even as they were flagged through the existing tools used for reporting malignant content.
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Researchers from the CCDH, a nongovernmental organization based in the United States and the United Kingdom, examined 714 anti-Jewish posts on the five platforms published between May and June. Collectively, they had been viewed 7.3 million times, the report said.
"The study of antisemitism has taught us a lot of things ... if you allow it space to grow, it will metastasize. It is a phenomenally resilient cancer in our society," Imran Ahmed, the CEO of CCDH told NPR. He said social media spaces have been "unable or unwilling" to take action against antisemitic posts effectively...
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1023819435/antisemitic-posts-are-rarely-removed-by-social-media-companies-a-study-finds
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)Mosby
(16,168 posts)You have leaders of countries who post antisemitic content on twitter and facebook.
PSPS
(13,516 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)They well know what they're doing.
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)But I am sure you know it is really "all about the Benjamins".
If the title were "anti-Semitism removed as often as other forms of bigotry", then it would be "typical Jews, always looking out for their own kind." If it were "anti-Semitism removed more often as other forms of bigotry", then all hell would break loose. The long and short, for some, this is just another example in their pathetic Jew-hating minds of a "Jewish problem" and they wish they had a "solution."