Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI): Increasing the Fog of War between Israel and Hamas
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Generative AI is used to share misleading information and as a reason to cast doubt on content, polluting the information environment around the war in Israel.
Platforms Struggling to Curb Online Hate Amidst War in Israel and Gaza
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ADL’s Center for Tech & Society finds social media companies are struggling to moderate online hate against Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.
As Hamas terrorists threaten to livestream executions of Israeli hostages, ADL examines platforms' policies and recommends how they should moderate livestreaming of violent extremism.
As War Rages, X Must Curb the Spread of Misinformation and Hate
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An article about how misinformation spreads on a platform during a time of war and safeguards that the platform X should make to better address these issues,
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.
Comment to the Meta Oversight Board Regarding Holocaust Denial and Distortion Content
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ADL strongly encourages the Oversight Board to affirm Meta's decision to remove Holocaust denial and distortion content, rightly classified as hate speech.
Despite game companies having policies prohibiting hate, researchers easily found usernames in 5 categories of hate across 5 popular online multiplayer games.
Six Things ADL is Watching Following Meta's Threads Launch
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Threads raises concerns similar to other Meta platforms on user safety, policies on hate, harassment, and extremism, transparency, and election integrity.
Threads of Hate: How Twitter's Content Moderation Misses the Mark
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Twitter’s decision to reinstate influential banned accounts allowed CTS to examine how they act as nodes in broader networks and exploit inadequate policies
Americans’ Views on Generative Artificial Intelligence, Hate and Harassment
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has dominated news headlines for its potential to transform how we work, write, and play. For example, OpenAI’s ChatGPT allows people to ask various questions, summarize a book or write a new song in the style of their favorite musical artist. AI-enhanced search tools return summaries of online content, rather than a list of links to different webpages. Other tools create realistic photos or pieces of artwork from a description. Some tools create…
Evaluating Twitter's Policies Six Months After Elon Musk's Purchase
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Policy and enforcement developments since Elon Musk acquisition of Twitter and what they mean for enforcement of hate speech policies and protecting users.
Social Media Election Policies: The Good, the Bad and the Misinformed
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False and misleading social media harms elections, undermines public trust, normalizes baseless challenges to elections, stokes harassment and incites violence.