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Wed Aug 11, 2021, 01:30 PM Aug 2021

(Jewish Group) Social media platforms fail to act on 84% of antisemitic content - report

Social media platforms failed to act on 84% of reported antisemitic content, with hateful posts receiving millions of views uninhibited, according to a new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) organization.

Over a period of six weeks, CCDH found and reported 714 examples of what it called "clear, grotesque antisemitism" which violated platform policies on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. These posts were seen up to 7.3 million times by social media users.

The posts in questions included posts claiming the Rothschild family was involved in 9/11, Holocaust denial and claims that Jews were behind the coronavirus pandemic, among other examples of antisemitism.

Of the hundreds of posts reported, social media platforms only acted on 16%, with 7% of the posts removed, 8.8% of the relevant accounts removed and 0.1% of the posts labelled as false, but remaining on the platform.

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