Algorithms are directing teenagers to thousands of videos about Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories about Jewish greed and influence, and false claims about 9/11 and Hamas’s October 7th attacks against Israel. …
The report by two counter-extremism bodies called the Antisemitism Policy Trust (APT) and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found that 15 year-old-users were quickly directed to antisemitic content.
Researchers created 10 profiles on TikTok representing a selection of diverse 15 year-olds with a variety of interests to gauge the extent of antisemitic content directed at teenagers.
They found that a 15 year-old boy interested in male lifestyle influencers needed to be on TikTok for only an hour before he was shown antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Another 15 year-old boy with an interest in Left-wing politics was served content glorifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and material featuring Abu Obeida, Hamas’s former spokesman, within 90 minutes.
The Amplifying Antisemitism report found that Holocaust denial content generated high levels of engagement. Videos disputing the death toll of six million Jews receive tens of thousands of likes and shares....<<<Read More>>>...