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Friend, Bad actors are quietly weaponizing Facebook Groups to spread anti-Jewish hate by camouflaging themselves as pro-Palestine supporters, while Meta (once again) neglects its responsibility to keep its platform safe. We identified nefarious antisemitic posts in 10 Groups discussing the Palestinian cause with over 300K members - where mostly well-meaning people express their solidarity with Palestine. A week after we reported anti-Jewish hate, these Groups’ admins failed to remove or hide 76% of the posts. Our new research also shows that: Some of the admins themselves have promoted hateful content, including justifying the Holocaust based on a “Jewish history of avariciousness” and spreading conspiracies about a “Jew World Order.” Our accounts were banned in 8 out of 10 Facebook Groups after reporting anti-Jewish hate. Most of the Groups that banned us have one admin in common: an account that has promoted conspiracies about the US government being controlled by a “Zionist international mafia" and lies about COVID. Facebook is profiting from ads placed next to anti-Jewish hate in the Groups we studied, including ads by The Salvation Army and Charity Meals.
What's worse, when we reported anti-Jewish hate directly to Facebook, the platform failed to act in 99% of cases after a week - which shows that Meta is leaving its responsibility to moderate content to Group admins who often spread hate themselves.
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