A new report by the Center to Counter Digital Hate (CCDH) revealed that five major social-media companies failed to act upon 84 percent of anti-Semitic posts on their websites, despite promising to double down on anti-Semitism.
Researchers from the non-governmental organization examined 714 racist anti-Jewish posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok that were published between May and June, reported NPR. The posts were viewed collectively 7.3 million times, and though they were flagged by the internal systems of the social-media companies, the five platforms did not act on the posts.
Facebook was the worse among all the companies by failing to act on 89 percent of anti-Semitic posts on its website. Meanwhile, it was discovered that TikTok has only banned 5 percent of accounts that directly target Jewish social-media users.
He claimed that the media platforms in question have been “unable or unwilling” to take action against anti-Semitic posts. The CCDH report proves that the companies are actively choosing not to moderate content on their websites.
“Tech companies are consciously giving a free pass to anti-Jewish hatred and the increasing threat to the Jewish community,” said the CCDH. “Social-media companies must do better. Platforms must support, hire and train moderators to remove this hate, and those platforms must be held accountable if they fail to remove this hate.”