Keeping the Lights On: How Cloudflare Sustains Violent Extremism, Graphic Violence and Terrorism Online
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This report details the real human impact of some of the sites Cloudflare sustains and evaluates the systemic policy and enforcement gaps that allow them to remain operational.
Bad Gateway: How Deplatforming Affects Extremist Websites
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This report analyzes whether deplatforming websites—removing infrastructure services they need to operate, such as payment processing—can reduce the spread and reach of extremism and hate online.
Lost in Translation: How AI Chatbots Fail Persian Speakers on Antisemitism
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When an AI chatbot is asked in English whether recent U.S. behavior toward Iran has been "Jewlike," it recognizes the term as an antisemitic slur and says so plainly. Ask the same question in Persian and the same chatbot answers like a political science professor, analyzing "geopolitical strategies and national interests," rarely mentioning antisemitism at all. When the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) recently tested four of the world's most popular AI platforms, a clear and…
Innovative AI Video Generators Produce Antisemitic, Hateful and Violent Outputs
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In a matter of seconds, anyone can now use popular AI video generation tools to create antisemitic and extremist content. As this technology continues to evolve, existing guardrails often fail to catch prompts that can be used to generate extremist content, contributing to the proliferation of antisemitic propaganda across social media. According to a new analysis from the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS), new AI-powered text-to-video tools can be easily used to produce disturbing…
Profiting from Hate: Platforms’ Ad Placement Problem
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ADL and TTP examines whether four major social media platforms are potentially profiting from ad placements alongside searches for hate groups and extremists.