The five largest social media platforms are failing to combat racism directed at Muslims. According to the new study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), this was still the case even when offensive posts were reported to the company's moderators. Twitter performs particularly poorly.
97 percent of Islamophobic posts were ignored. Facebook did nothing about 94 percent of these postings. With 100 percent, YouTube was way ahead. Instagram came in at 86 percent and TikTok at least 64 percent.
Free rein for crude ideas
According to CCDH, there were several large groups on Facebook specifically designed to spread hate against Muslims. Together they had 361,922 followers. However, the tech platforms also did not respond to 89 percent of the postings aimed at spreading the so-called “Great Exchange” conspiracy theory. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube all failed to respond to 89 percent of anti-Muslim and Islamophobic hate posts, it said.
Using a proprietary reporting tool, researchers flagged 530 posts that contained bigoted and dehumanizing content designed to target Muslim people using racist caricatures, conspiracies and false claims. The “Failure to Protect” study has already shown that these postings were seen at least 25 million times. Much of this hateful content was easy to identify. According to CCDH managing director Imran Ahmed, the platforms still decided not to act. Instagram, TikTok and Twitter allow their users to use hashtags such as “#deathtoislam”, “#islamiscancer” and “#raghead”. Content distributed using these hashtags received at least 1.3 million impressions.
Significant misconduct
Recently, researchers found that Instagram fails to respond to 90 percent of users' complaints of misogynistic abuse directly via Direct Message. And in 2021, CCDH determined that major tech platforms collectively ignored 84 percent of anti-Semitic postings. The major providers vowed to improve after the events in Christchurch. Contrary to these assurances, however, they all did nothing about 88 of 99 posts that promoted the big exchange. Facebook and Instagram ignored 97.5 and 80 percent of these postings, respectively.
Source: pte
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