Re:Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases
by _alxk on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:04AM
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Sadly, I had to ask myself the same question.
A report came out in the UK claiming widespread anti-semitism on University campuses and made the headlines. They had failed to distinguish between criticism of Israel and anti-semitism in the report, which was very disappointing. There certainly was some clear cases of anti-semitism, but they bundled criticism of Israel and accusations of Israel running an apartheid regime as "anti-semitism".
As you point out, this is not the case here.
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>It said that those it tagged as Holocaust denial remained online 80% of the time, while for neo-Nazi content it was 71%.
I'm glad to see they were somewhat specific on the content. On the internet things get muddy and I've been on a forum that was tied to a specific location that was connected to an American politician. For a short while we were inundated with some new accounts there arriving to tell us how outraged they were about this antisemitic politician who as far as I could tell had just criticized Israeli government actions / policies.
It's unfortunate that my first thought was "What what are we talking about exactly here?"