Platform Transparency Reports - Just How Transparent?
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Executive Summary Transparency reports of the largest social media platforms continue to be anything but transparent. New research from the ADL Center for Tech & Society (CTS) shows that most of these platforms only publish partial information about how much hate content they remove or action in some way. To make matters worse, these reports are often hard to locate, void of meaningful information, and only provide patchy insights into how platforms address hate, harassment,…
Campus Antisemitism Online: The Proliferation of Hate on Sidechat
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ADL Center for Tech and Society shows anonymous campus messaging apps like Yik Yak & Sidechat are failing to curb hatred triggered by the Israel-Hamas war.
Graphic Violence Policy, Enforcement, and Features Checklist
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Center for Tech & Society checklist maps platform policies, moderation standards, product features and user controls to address graphic violent content online.
Sliding Through: Spreading Antisemitism on TikTok by Exploiting Moderation Gaps
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ADL Center for Tech and Society found that users may avoid TikTok’s content moderation by posting images and that slurs can be accessed and posted as hashtags.
Tis the Season for Difficult Conversations: A Guide to Online and Offline Discourse
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ADL Center for Tech and Society offers a social media explainer to help guide online and offline dialogue around the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
Most Americans Exposed to Hateful Online Misinformation About Israel/Hamas War
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An ADL survey found 70% of Americans had viewed misinformation about the war or hateful content directed towards Jews, Israelis, Muslims, Palestinians, or Arabs.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI): Increasing the Fog of War between Israel and Hamas
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Generative AI is used to share misleading information and as a reason to cast doubt on content, polluting the information environment around the war in Israel.
Platforms Struggling to Curb Online Hate Amidst War in Israel and Gaza
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ADL’s Center for Tech & Society finds social media companies are struggling to moderate online hate against Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.
As Hamas terrorists threaten to livestream executions of Israeli hostages, ADL examines platforms' policies and recommends how they should moderate livestreaming of violent extremism.
As War Rages, X Must Curb the Spread of Misinformation and Hate
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An article about how misinformation spreads on a platform during a time of war and safeguards that the platform X should make to better address these issues,
Profiting from Hate: Platforms’ Ad Placement Problem
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ADL and TTP examines whether four major social media platforms are potentially profiting from ad placements alongside searches for hate groups and extremists.
Despite game companies having policies prohibiting hate, researchers easily found usernames in 5 categories of hate across 5 popular online multiplayer games.
Six Things ADL is Watching Following Meta's Threads Launch
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Threads raises concerns similar to other Meta platforms on user safety, policies on hate, harassment, and extremism, transparency, and election integrity.
Threads of Hate: How Twitter's Content Moderation Misses the Mark
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Twitter’s decision to reinstate influential banned accounts allowed CTS to examine how they act as nodes in broader networks and exploit inadequate policies