California has dealt with a significant increase in extremist activity. This report highlights the key extremist trends and incidents in 2021 and 2022.
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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.
Scorecard evaluating online social media and gaming platforms' policies and enforcement of removing holocaust denial content
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.
ADL recorded 3,697 antisemitic incidents in 2022, the highest number of antisemitic incidents on record since ADL began tracking in 1979.
ADL findings expand on correlations between antisemitic beliefs and factors such as education, conspiratorial thinking and personal connections.
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.
Between 2016-2022, extremists and bigots used crowdfunding to finance their activities, raising over $6.2 million across 324 campaigns.
In our topline findings, data shows widespread belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories & tropes nearly doubled since 2019 & the highest levels in 30 years.
Our “Hate in the Sunshine State” report outlines the alarming rise in extremism and antisemitism in Florida over the past two years.
The first analysis of hate and harassment on Minecraft server data.
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