Tag: antisemitism

Social Media Watchdog CyberWell Technology Detects Over 150,000 English & Arabic Posts in 2023 as Highly Likely Antisemitism

Stuart Mitchell

CyberWell, an innovative tech nonprofit focused on monitoring and combatting the spread of antisemitism on social media, has released its annual report of antisemitic trends on social media for 2023. The group’s AI, which monitors for posts highly likely to fit within the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, flagged more than 150,000 posts made in English and Arabic. The group also observed an increase in moderation efforts by Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube, as the average removal rate rose from nearly 24 percent in 2022…

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UNESCO calls for intensified collective efforts to combat antisemitism online

Stuart Mitchell

On the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January, UNESCO urges social media companies to intensify their fight against antisemitism and denial and distortion of the Holocaust online. The Organization has already established partnerships with Meta and Tik-Tok as a key first step, but significant work remains. As we enter a world with fewer and fewer survivors who can testify to what happened, it is imperative that social media companies take responsibility to fight misinformation and to better protect those…

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