Tools Against Harassment: Empowering Content Creators
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ADL interviews content creators about their experiences with harassment in their comment sections and frustrations with the moderation tools available to them
Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience 2024
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ADL's 2024 survey shows online hate and harassment statistics for adults and teens, with data, analysis, and policy recommendations for tech companies and government.
Hate Thy Neighbor: Online Hate in Local Communities
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Read Time: 54 mins Executive SummarySome 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. ADL has investigated online hate and harassment occurring on Facebook groups or pages in three local regions through interviews with community members, targets, and regional directors, combined with online observation, content review, and quantitative data…
Addressing Extremism in Online Games Through Platform Policies
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With recent ADL research showing that 15% of adults and 9% of young people have been exposed to white supremacist ideology while playing online games, ADL has examined three leading game companies’ policies to see how they prohibit content that promotes extremism and terrorism in their online multiplayer games. Despite widespread exposure to such content, game companies have generally been slower than social media companies to address this issue. ADL recommends that…
Playing with Hate: How People with Jewish Usernames are Abused in Online Competitive Games
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People playing online competitive multiplayer experiences (online games) experience more hate and harassment when playing with a jewish username, shows a study for ADL
ADL Center for Antisemitism Research's new study - fielded in Jan. 2024 - reveals 24% of Americans harbor extensive antisemitic prejudice, up from 20% in 2022.
Americans Increasingly Aware of and Concerned about Antisemitism
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Awareness and concern about antisemitism grew in 2023 due to the Hamas attacks and a rise in antisemitic incidents, as evidenced by a poll of 1,484 US adults.
ADL and CPOST found that trends that raised the greatest risk of antidemocratic violence in recent years are particularly associated with antisemitism.
Hate Parties: Sharing Links on Fringe Platforms Drives Antisemitic Comments on YouTube
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Hate parties occur when links shared to fringe platforms lead users to YouTube comment sections to revel in hate, challenging content moderation strategies.
From Bad To Worse: Amplification and Auto-Generation of Hate
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ADL’s research with the Tech Transparency Project shows that major social media platforms continue to algorithmically amplify and auto-generate hateful content.
Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience 2023
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ADL's 2023 survey shows online hate and harassment rose for adults and teens, with data, analysis, and policy recommendations for tech companies and government.
The Antisemitic Environment: How Social and Media Exposures Predict Antisemitic Beliefs
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An analysis of how friends, family, religious institutions, talk radio, pop culture, politicians and social media predict anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes.
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Obstacles and Opportunities for Trust and Safety Teams in the Games Industry
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The ADL Center for Technology and Society interviewed leading trust and safety practitioners in the games industry to understand efforts to address hate and harassment in the game industry.
Bad Gateway: How Deplatforming Affects Extremist Websites
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This report analyzes whether deplatforming websites—removing infrastructure services they need to operate, such as payment processing—can reduce the spread and reach of extremism and hate online.