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appalachiablue

(41,131 posts)
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 04:43 PM Aug 2021

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.

Free Speech And Hate Speech: Another Reckoning For Social Media Companies
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

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Antisemitic Posts Are Rarely Removed By Social Media Companies, A Study Finds (Original Post) appalachiablue Aug 2021 OP
I am Shocked! Behind the Aegis Aug 2021 #1
The problem is too big to contain. Mosby Aug 2021 #2
No, not too big. They make more money by leaving it. PSPS Aug 2021 #3
And leaders within our own legislature fueling the fires of division. Budi Aug 2021 #4
True. Behind the Aegis Aug 2021 #6
K&R Solly Mack Aug 2021 #5
K&R JudyM Aug 2021 #7

Mosby

(16,310 posts)
2. The problem is too big to contain.
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 05:09 PM
Aug 2021

You have leaders of countries who post antisemitic content on twitter and facebook.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
4. And leaders within our own legislature fueling the fires of division.
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 06:07 PM
Aug 2021

They well know what they're doing.

Behind the Aegis

(53,956 posts)
6. True.
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 08:41 PM
Aug 2021

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."

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