Only 25% of antisemitic posts and other content on social media were removed in 2021, a new report released by FOA, Fighting Online Antisemitism, an Israeli watchdog group revealed.
The Israeli watchdog group is one of only a handful of similar organizations worldwide that monitor and reports antisemitic content online.
A segmentation of the data shows that 1,732 antisemitic Twitter posts were reported across 2021, of which 391 were removed (22.5%). On Instagram, 1,039 posts were reported as offensive and 329 (31.7%) were removed, and of the 577 Facebook posts reported as antisemitic, 133 were removed (23%).
Of the 114 YouTube videos reported as including antisemitic content, 28 (24.5%) were removed, and on TikTok, of the 101 clips reported as offensive, 35 (34.6%) were removed.
Russian social media network VK saw 359 posts reported as antisemitic and removed 88 (24.5%) of them.
The report noted that overall, VK was found to contain the most virulent posts – in no less than 16 languages. Some 57.9% of the offensive posts were in English, 13.8% in Russian, 13.1% in Arabic, 9.8% in Spanish, 2.4% in French, and an additional 3% in other languages.
FOA noted in its report that there are differences between each of the social media platforms, which affects how they can be monitored – a process that is mostly manual at this point.
