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Posted By admin on August 26, 2020

While anti-Semitism has been prevalent on social media for many years, a new study by the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD) has found cases where platforms like Facebook are actively promoting Holocaust denial in their recommendation algorithms.

Its study, Hosting the Holohoax: A Snapshot of Holocaust Denial Across Social Media addresses how certain words and phrases are used across major social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Youtube.

Facebook responded to the findings saying it does remove posts that violate its policies on hate speech, though Holocaust denial does not always meet the threshold.

The publication of the ISD study comes after increasing pressure has been put on social media companies to curb the anti-Semitism and other prejudices found on their platforms. The online campaign, Stop Hate For Profit, was a July 2020 event that set to boycott advertising on Facebooks platform in an attempt to pressure them to change some of their policies surrounding hate speech.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Following the publication of the story, Twitter responded the following:

"As outlined in the Twitter Rules, we do not tolerate targeted instances of hateful conduct, including making references to violent events or types of violence where protected categories were the primary victims, or attempts to deny or diminish such events. We also have a robust glorification of violence policy in place and take action against content that glorifies or praises the Holocaust. These policies also apply to content included in profile elements including banners, avatars and bios."

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#HoloHoax: Researchers say Facebook and Twitter have a conceptual blindspot around Holocaust denial - CTech

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