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Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases

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Re: Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases

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Post by sbilstein »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #10

I'm skeptical of this kind of analysis without concrete examples of the kind of content that wasn't removed. Even if you trust the researchers (I personally am not familiar with them), there are legitimate reasons why they might not categorize things the same way as social media platforms. e: Turns out that the researchers' full report actually does contain concrete examples, which seem to be legitimately bad and tak…

I've reported this page countless times that purports to be about 'jewish contributions to society' but is clear as day dog whistling.

https://www.instagram.com/jewish.contributions/?hl=en

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Post by fighterpilot »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #10

I'm skeptical of this kind of analysis without concrete examples of the kind of content that wasn't removed. Even if you trust the researchers (I personally am not familiar with them), there are legitimate reasons why they might not categorize things the same way as social media platforms. e: Turns out that the researchers' full report actually does contain concrete examples, which seem to be legitimately bad and tak…

Did you read the report? They did give many concrete examples.

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Post by hobs »

cultofmetatron wrote: post #9

I know this is probably going to cost me some downvotes on here but here goes... I've personally stopped listening or caring about this dog whistle after seeing it used constantly to squash any discussion of the Palestinian apartheid.

You can hold multiple things in your mind at once. "The Jews" are not Israel.

The idea that anti-semitism is somehow intrinsically tied to Palestine is historically and obviously false. While there's plenty of reasons to hate Israel for its actions on Palestine the history of pogroms, blood libel, genocide, expulsions, etc goes on centuries before there was ever a nation to hate in the first place.

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Post by duxup »

djohnston wrote: post #23

Does this include all the legitimate criticisms of Israel that people try to lazily deflect with accusations of antisemitism? Who is doing the counting?

The article doesn't mention anything like that and gives a good idea of the examples.

Did anyone even read the article?

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Post by billytetrud »

LightG wrote: post #19
bpodgursky wrote: post #7

It's pretty... interesting, that the new expected norm is that all hateful / offensive posts are taken down on the internet. 10 years ago, this would be a very confusing headline to read.

Adding "offensive" to your sentence is a bit disingenuous.

? Why?

Re: Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases

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Post by sbilstein »

cultofmetatron wrote: post #9

I know this is probably going to cost me some downvotes on here but here goes... I've personally stopped listening or caring about this dog whistle after seeing it used constantly to squash any discussion of the Palestinian apartheid.

The dog whistle cuts both ways. I've heard more than enough anti-semitic stuff thinly veiled as criticism of Israel and I am a Jew firmly against the occupation.

Re: Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases

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Post by hobs »

Miner49er wrote: post #20

Are the George Soros ones actually anti-semitic? I'm sure some are, but it seems most are just anti George Soros.

Yes, the evolution of the GS conspiracies are just putting a name to the "Jews are running the world" conspiracies, giving him god like powers to manipulate and control.
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