Social Media Companies' Softness To Antisemitism Exposed: Most Flagged Posts Not Taken Down
Posted on AllSides August 3rd, 2021
From The Center
Astudy found that five popular social media platforms failed to remove 84% of the reported anti-Jewish posts.
Researchers from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit based in the U.K. and the U.S., collected and reported 714 anti-Semitic posts, which had been collectively viewed at least 7.3 million times.
The posts published between May to June were reported using tools available on Facebook, Twitter Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
"The study of anti-Semitism has taught us a lot of things," Imran Ahmed, CEO of CCDH told NPR. "If you allow it space to...