During January 2023, CyberWell’s research team conducted a one-month review of Holocaust denial and distortion, culminating in data released by CyberWell for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
We found that, while the rate of removal of content denying the Holocaust on social media (36%) is higher than the average removal rate of reported antisemitic content in general (24%), this is only true for posts in English.
When we reviewed similar content in Arabic, the rate of removal for blatant Holocaust denial was abysmal, dropping to just 10% and despite this content directly violating social media hate speech policies. Prior to Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel) on April 18, 2023, CyberWell further dug into this issue, and found stark differences between platforms, as well as even worse disparity between removal rates in English and Arabic than originally identified.
