Human Rights NGO Urges Twitter to Fight Anti-Semites on Social Media Platform
LOS ANGELES – Wednesday, November 16, 2022 - The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), a leadingJewish human rights NGO, is joining 180 civil rights groups from around the world calling on Twitter to adopt the widely accepted IHRA definition of anti-Semitism and apply it to degrade the marketingcapabilities of anti-Semites on the social media platform.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean and Director of Social Global Action for the SWC, issued the following statement:
“We believe that with Elon Musk's innovative leadership, Twitter can quickly implement technological solutions to curb anti-Semitismby utilizing the IHRA working definition. We established our Digital Terrorism and Hate Project over a quarter of a century ago. Today, everyone acknowledges that social media platforms serveaccelerants in spreading the cancer of anti-Semitic hate, lies, misinformation and conspiracies. Elon Musk has both the responsibility to degrade the capacity of online anti-Semites to leverage Twitter’s powerful platform and the opportunity to inspire other social media giants to follow his lead”
Demonstrating the seriousness of Twitter's antisemitism problem, a letter was sent to Mr. Musk that includes a dataset of more than1,000 examples of anti-semitic tweets that fall under the IHRA definition. The letter can be found here.