The Oath Keepers Data Leak: Unmasking Extremism in Public Life
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This report uses leaked Oath Keeper data to highlight the number of one-time and/or current Oath Keepers members or supporters holding sensitive positions in society.
Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience 2022
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CA Residents: Tell Your Senator to Stop Hiding Hate Executive Summary
Each year, ADL conducts a nationally representative survey of hate and harassment online to find out how many Americans experience incidents of hate and abuse on social media. Our fourth survey finds that harassment remains unacceptably prevalent, despite platforms’ efforts to curb it. Marginalized groups, including Jews, women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people, experience online…
Parents Want More Transparency From Tech Companies
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Children are spending more time on social media than ever before but tech platforms are not transparent about the hate and harassment taking place on their platforms or their actions to stop it. ADL conducted a survey of parents to assess their level of concern and what changes they would like to see in social media for their children.
Hate in the Empire State: Extremism & Antisemitism in New York, 2020-2021
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This report examines extremist and antisemitic trends and incidents across New York state during the two-year time period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021, and provides recommendations for combatting these threats.
Each year, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism tracks incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in the United States. Since 1979 we have published this information in an annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents.
In 2021, ADL tabulated 2,717 antisemitic incidents throughout the United States. This is a 34% increase from the 2,026 incidents tabulated in 2020 and the highest number on record since ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979.
Of the 2…
Sweden’s leading right-wing extremist group: Violence, Antisemitism and International Connections. Acknowledgements: Contributing authors to this report were Jonathan Leman and Morgan Finnsiö of Expo Foundation, Stockholm, a valued ADL partner in the fight against extremism.
The fanatically antisemitic Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is the Nordic region’s leading and most dangerous right-wing extremist group.
Over the quarter-century of its existence, the NRM has…
U.S. White Supremacist Propaganda Remained at Historic Levels in 2021, With 27 Percent Rise in Antisemitic Messaging
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ADL’s annual assessment found white supremacist events more than doubled year-over-year White supremacist propaganda, which allows extremist groups to disseminate hateful messages and gain attention with little risk of public exposure, has been on the rise for several years. In 2021, the overall numbers were down slightly, but paired with a 27 percent increase in antisemitic content and messaging.
Since 2017, the ADL Center on Extremism has closely tracked white supremacist…
Every year people with ties to a variety of extreme movements and causes kill people in the United States; the ADL Center on Extremism tracks these murders. Extremists regularly commit murders in the service of their ideology, in the service of a group or gang they may belong to, or while engaging in traditional, non-ideological criminal activities.
In 2021, domestic extremists killed at least 29 people in the United States, in 19 separate incidents. This represents a modest increase from…
What Social Media Platforms Miss About White Supremacist Speech Author
Libby Hemphill is an associate professor in the University of Michigan's School of Information and the Institute for Social Research. She studies politicians, non-profit organizations, and television fans to understand how people use social media to organize, discuss, and enact social change. She also develops automated mechanisms for moderating and classifying content in social media in order to reduce toxicity in…
Top 10 Heartbreaking Moments of Hate in 2021, and How ADL Responded
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The year 2021 was marked by a series of heart-wrenching setbacks in the fight against hate around the world. From the Capitol insurrection on January 6 to brazen attacks on Jews, Asian Americans, and other marginalized groups in the streets of New York and Los Angeles, these events drew back the curtain on the prevalence of antisemitism and racism, fueled hatred in our communities and fostered division across society.
Fortunately, they did not come without repercussions or a response…
As the year draws to a close, ADL looks back on the moments from 2021 that gave us hope and encouragement that our hundred-plus-year fight against antisemitism and hate is making progress.
And there were plenty of big, inspirational moments to choose from in 2021: A $26 million verdict against the white supremacists responsible for Charlottesville; the launch of a $1.1 billion foundation to help prevent Anti-Asian hate crimes; and meaningful legal victories against racially motivated…
“Holocuento y otras mentiras”: El antisemitismo en español en Facebook
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Una de las muchas revelaciones condenatorias de la denunciante de Facebook Frances Haugen durante su testimonio en el Congreso el 5 de octubre fue que la plataforma dedica el 87% de sus investigaciones y recursos a combatir la desinformación en contenidos en inglés, cuando sólo el 9% de sus usuarios son angloparlantes. La falta de control de los contenidos de odio en idiomas distintos al inglés ha contribuido a alimentar conflictos mundiales tales como la guerra…
The Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses, 2020-2021
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During the 2020-2021 academic year, much of the anti-Israel activist movement on campus continued to vilify Israel and Zionism and ostracize pro-Israel and Zionist students. This action disproportionately impacts large percentages of Jewish students, for whom a connection with Israel is an integral component of their religious, social, or cultural lives and identities. Many Jewish students reported feeling compelled to hide aspects of their identities.
The campus anti-Israel movement…
How Platforms Rate on Hate: Measuring Antisemitism and Adequacy of Enforcement Across Reddit and Twitter
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How much hate exists online, and how large is its reach? Is it possible to independently evaluate the claims tech companies make about the amount of hate on their platforms and how effectively they are addressing it? To answer these questions, ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) is building the Online Hate Index (OHI), a machine learning system that detects hate targeting marginalized groups on online platforms. This report presents the inaugural findings of the OHI’s…
“Holostory and Other Lies”: Spanish-Language Antisemitism on Facebook
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One of the many damning revelations from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen during her Congressional testimony on October 5 was that the platform devotes 87% of its research and resources on fighting misinformation to English-language content when only 9% of its users are English speakers. The lack of content moderation over hateful content in languages other than English has helped fuel global conflicts such as the civil war in Ethiopia.
And it appears Facebook’s efforts in…