Keeping the Lights On: How Cloudflare Sustains Violent Extremism, Graphic Violence and Terrorism Online
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This report details the real human impact of some of the sites Cloudflare sustains and evaluates the systemic policy and enforcement gaps that allow them to remain operational.
The Safety Divide: Open-Source AI Models Fall Short on Guardrails for Antisemitic, Dangerous Content
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ADL study finds popular open-source LLMs can easily be manipulated by malicious actors to produce antisemitic, extremist, and dangerous content amid weak safety guardrails.
Short Dialogues with AI Reduce Belief in Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories
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A groundbreaking study supported by ADL found that fact-based dialogues with a trained AI chatbot durably reduced antisemitic conspiracy beliefs and increased favorability toward Jews.
Who Leads the Pride: Fostering Student Leadership with Don't Feed the Lion
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Don’t Feed the Lion: IntroductionDon’t Feed the Lion by Bianna Golodryga and Yonit Levi explores the story of antisemitism growing at Oakdale Middle School. The story begins with Theo Kaplan, a 13-year-old Chicago middle schooler and soccer captain. Theo’s world is turned upside down when his professional soccer idol, Wes Mitchell, makes an antisemitic comment that goes viral. The situation escalates when Theo discovers a swastika…
Portrait of Antisemitic Experiences in the U.S., 2024-2025
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This joint ADL-Jewish Federations research shows the normalization of antisemitism and its effects on American Jews’ mental health and feelings of safety.
False Flag Narratives Emerge on Reddit After D.C., Boulder Attacks
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Research by the ADL Center for Tech & Society (CTS) found that the term ‘false flag’ ranked as the second most popular term on Reddit in a sample of conversations about the antisemitic Boulder attack and the fifth most popular following the D.C. Capitol Jewish Museum attack.
Status Report: Antisemitism in America after Boulder
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A new ADL survey found that a substantial number of Americans justify or excuse violence against Jews while most still reject antisemitism and want action taken against it.
On social media and gaming platforms, hate and harassment thrive in closed online spaces, which lack the visibility and accountability of more open or public ones.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how people consume and trust information—including what books they read. Amazon, the world’s largest bookseller, uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate short, snappy summaries of customer reviews. While this may be useful when applied to bedsheets or kitchen appliances, applying AI to book reviews—without human oversight—is proving to be deeply problematic. We found that AI-generated reviews are promoting books that…
Generating Hate: Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel Bias in Leading Large Language Models
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Co-produced with Builders For Tomorrow Executive SummaryADL research shows that four leading LLMs, particularly Llama, display bias against Jews and Israel. LLM bias in other areas has already been highlighted; this report provides the most comprehensive evaluation to date of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias in major LLMs—GPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), and Llama (Meta). In 2025 and beyond, the importance of large language model (LLM)…
Editing for Hate: How Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Bias Undermines Wikipedia’s Neutrality
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Co-produced with Builders For Tomorrow Executive Summary ADL has identified extensive issues with antisemitic and anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia in multiple languages. These issues include 1) a coordinated campaign to manipulate Wikipedia content related to Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and similar issues, in which a group of editors systematically evade Wikipedia’s rules to shift balanced narratives toward skewed ones, spotlighting criticism of Israel and downplaying…
Campus Antisemitism One Year After the Hamas Terrorist Attacks
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Most Jewish students face antisemitism; over 25% of Jewish students said they had observed anti-Jewish activity from faculty. Rates of self-censorship of Jewish identity and views of Israel remain high.
Playing with Hate: How Online Gamers with Diverse Identity Usernames are Treated
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by Dr. Kat Schrier, Professor and Director of Games & Emerging Media at Marist University 29 min read Executive Summary This report shows there was hate and harassment in about half of the online multiplayer game sessions that ADL asked a group of participants to play using a range of religious, ethnic, and national identities. Previous research by ADL and others has repeatedly suggested that online games are spaces where hate and harassment are rampant; we set out to…
Antisemitism in Schools and Support for Holocaust Education
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Majority of Jewish parents surveyed report antisemitism in K-12 schools; and despite high public support for Holocaust and antisemitism education, less than 1/3 get it.
Jewish and Israeli Americans Face Discrimination in the Job Market
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An ADL study shows that Jewish and Israeli Americans are subject to discrimination in the US labor market because of their identity, not their qualifications.
Hateful Election Misinformation Thrives as Platforms Roll Back Policies
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Executive summaryFalse and misleading election narratives are surging on social media platforms in the lead up to the US presidential election. Since 2022, at least three major platforms have weakened their rules against disseminating election misinformation. Of these, X/Twitter also appears to have rolled back enforcement against hateful election misinformation. Ahead of this election, a flood of narratives has surged rehashing antisemitic tropes and pushing anti-immigrant…
Online Antisemitism: How Tech Platforms Handle User Reporting Post 10/7
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Executive Summary Platforms are still failing to take action on antisemitic hate reported through regular channels available to users. Researchers at the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) tested how well five major platforms enforced their policies against hateful content in two areas: antisemitic conspiracy theories and the term “Zionist” used as a slur. Most platforms only took action when ADL escalated the reports through direct channels, and even…
AB587 Revisited: How are Platforms Complying with California's Newly-Mandated Transparency Reporting?
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12 min read Executive Summary Most tech companies have rules against hate and harassment. But until a new law in California was enacted in 2022, they had not been accountable to the American public for enforcing them. The law that could change all this, California AB 587, requires social media companies over a certain size to publish their terms of service, including key definitions of terms, and report regularly on how they are adhering to their policies…
Antisemitism on Reddit: Addressing Moderator Concerns
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18 min read Executive SummaryA group of moderators, who were struggling to cope with antisemitism in their communities on the social media platform Reddit, reached out to the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) for support. Following engagement with Reddit—based on research into these moderators’ experiences—the platform took several important steps to support these moderators and stem instances of antisemitism on the site. Some of these steps include: …