New York, NY, June 17, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today praised the U.S. Surgeon General's call for a warning label on social media platforms, saying that it was a welcome development that health professions are working alongside researchers, policymakers and advocates in thinking creatively about helping targets of online hate and harassment. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: "The Surgeon General’s call for a…
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New York, NY, June 10, 2024 … More than half of all Americans - 56 percent - report experiencing online hate or harassment in their lifetimes, continuing an upward trend, according to ADL’s sixth annual Survey of Online Hate and Harassment – the highest rate since 2020. At a time when antisemitic incidents are at historic levels, 34 percent of Jewish adults who were harassed online reported being targeted because of their religion in the past 12 months. In addition, 63…
To: Oversight Board From: ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Re: Comment to Oversight Board regarding use of the slogan "From the river - to the sea" The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Today, ADL continues to fight all forms of antisemitism and bias, using innovation and…
New York, NY, June 6, 2024 … Researchers at the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) found that some Facebook groups in local communities have become toxic sites of harassment, particularly identity-based harassment against Jews, women, LGBTQ+ advocates, immigrants, and people of color. Through interviews with community members, targets of the harassment and other stakeholders, combined with online observation, content analysis, and data scraping,…
ADL and Jewish community partners call on TikTok to take concrete steps in order to address the prevalence and proliferation of antisemitism on their platform.
We asked five of the main AI Chatbot platforms about topics related to antisemitism and their answers revealed concerning discrepancies.
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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,…
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.
ADL research shows ChatGPT misleads people seeking information about current events. This can be abused by bad actors & undermines trust.
ADL’s toolkit on digital abuse and online hate equips law enforcement with tools to address hate or harassment that starts online but does not always stay there
Center for Tech & Society explains why access to platform data is important, how APIs work, and evaluates major platforms on their data accessibility.
Center for Tech & Society checklist maps platform policies, moderation standards, product features and user controls to address graphic violent content online.
ADL and TTP examine whether Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube are potentially facilitating hate group fundraising and merchandise sales.
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.
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.
An ADL survey found 70% of Americans had viewed misinformation about the war or hateful content directed towards Jews, Israelis, Muslims, Palestinians, or Arabs.
ADL Center for Tech and Society finds that antisemitic posts spiked 919% on X in the week after the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
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.
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.