REPAIR Plan: Fighting Hate in the Digital World
Online antisemitism, extremism and hate have increased dramatically in recent years, and the consequences have included violent attacks and serious harm. Online platforms often lack adequate policies to mitigate these challenges or fail to enforce their policies effectively. In addition, laws to hold perpetrators of antisemitism, extremism and hate accountable are outdated or don’t exist at all.
Join us in pushing back on hate in the digital world.
National and state laws and policies require significant updates to hold social media platforms and individual perpetrators accountable for enabling or promoting antisemitism, extremism and hate. With this plan, ADL offers a comprehensive framework for platforms and policymakers to take meaningful action to decrease online antisemitism, extremism and hate. REPAIR addresses many manifestations of online hate, including online harassment, antisemitism, racism, extremist disinformation and domestic terrorism. There is no single fix to the problem, but REPAIR presents a clear path forward.
To push antisemitism, extremism and hate to the fringes of the digital world, we all must prioritize:
Reorient and Resource Government
Expose Platform Recklessness
Put People Over Profit
Advocate for Targets of Hate & Harassment
Interrupt Disinformation
Regulate Platforms
ADL’s three-pronged approach to national advocacy
The REPAIR Plan complements ADL’s COMBAT Plan to fight antisemitism and PROTECT Plan to fight domestic extremism. Together, these three plans – REPAIR, COMBAT and PROTECT—for the foundation of ADL’s whole-of-society advocacy agenda. ADL is mobilizing its full resources and capacities in pursuit of these comprehensive policy agendas on the international, national, state and local levels.
ADL Initiatives and Coalition Work
Backspace Hate™
Online hate stokes fear, silences voices and causes harm to people’s personal and professional lives.
Backspace Hate™ is ADL's initiative supporting victims and targets of online hate and harassment by raising awareness and passing legislation to better hold perpetrators accountable for their actions online. When harassment pushes targets offline, perpetrators spew hateful messages and silence valuable voices. It’s time to backspace the hate and make room for good.
Additional Resources
Steam-Powered Hate: Top Gaming Site Rife with Extremism & Antisemitism
Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience 2024
2023 Online Holocaust Denial Report Card
Hateful Election Misinformation Thrives as Platforms Roll Back Policies
A Year of Hate: Antisemitism on Telegram Post-10/7
Online Antisemitism: How Tech Platforms Handle User Reporting Post 10/7