A study published by the Center for Combating Digital Hate revealed that social media platforms failed to remove 84 percent of content classified as anti-Semitic or containing anti-Jewish hate speech.
A digital rights group, Heat Aid, and the European Union of Jewish Students sued Twitter in a German court on Wednesday over its failure to remove anti-Semitic content.
The European Union of Jewish Students explained that the tweets in question had been flagged under Twitter’s rules but not removed.
Avital Greenberg, president of the European Union of Jewish Students, told Euronews that the posts were “extremely shocking” and included denial of the Holocaust, which is a crime in Germany.
11 percent of anti-Semitic posts
“The tweets are really disgusting and absolutely frightening,” Greenberg explained. “We’re not just talking about discriminatory speech. We’re talking about hate speech which is illegal under German law.”
A study published by the Center for Combating Digital Hate revealed that social media platforms failed to remove 84 percent of content classified as anti-Semitic or containing anti-Jewish hate speech.
The study reported that Twitter removed 11 percent of reported anti-Semitic posts.
“When we succeed in this case, we will have an important tool to hold Twitter accountable and increase pressure on the platforms,” Josephine Balon, head of the legal department at Heat Aid, told Euronews.
Euronews had not received a response from Twitter at the time of this article’s publication.
