TEL AVIV – A new report from CyberWell found that in the thirteen-month period marked by the rapid popularization of AI image, video and audio generators, AI-generated antisemitic content exploded across social media. This first of its kind research examines the nexus between generative AI abuse, social media governance, and social media use, highlighting the forums where repeat antisemitic abuse of generative AI models reaches its largest audiences – on today’s major social media platforms. CyberWell’s verified dataset of 300 AI-generated pieces of antisemitic content alone reached more than 30 million views and generated more than 2.8 million engagements on major social media platforms.
Analyzing hundreds of AI-generated antisemitic posts published between January 2025 and February 2026, the research showed that widely accessible tools such as OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Veo, X’s Grok and Suno were used to mass-produce persuasive anti-Jewish AI content. These AI programs blended fabricated visuals, audio and narratives with real-world footage, making antisemitic content more believable, more engaging and harder to detect. Much of the content related to mocking and denying the Holocaust was specifically aimed to target children and even appeared next to content meant to groom or sexualize minors on social media feeds. Following widespread misuse of Sora to spread problematic content, OpenAI ultimately shut down the tool, underscoring the challenges of preventing abuse of advanced generative AI systems.
The research showed that 79 percent of the antisemitic content analyzed appeared in video-based platforms – TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, with short-form video dominating and often targeting younger audiences through gaming culture, parody content and viral audio trends. CyberWell found that AI-generated music and gaming formats tied to platforms such as Roblox and Minecraft were repeatedly used to embed antisemitic narratives in youth-oriented spaces.
While AI-generated antisemitic content existed prior to October 7, 2023, during the aftermath of the Hamas attacks this type of content gained more traction and amplification on social media platforms. The increased, noticeably visible presence of AI-generated antisemitic content on social media platforms after the October 7th massacre prompted CyberWell to begin monitoring it as a regular part of its research and monitoring methodology. A significant turning point emerged during the June 2025 conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States. CyberWell identified a sharp spike in the cross-platform dissemination of antisemitic AI-generated content during this period.
“Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the scale and speed at which antisemitism can be produced and distributed online,” said CyberWell CEO and founder Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor. “Generative AI now allows bad actors to industrialize hate, producing high-impact content that can reach millions, with enforcement often coming only after it has already been widely amplified. CyberWell’s latest report examining the circulation of antisemitic AI-generated content on major platforms provides critical insights for how social media platforms can take on the abuse of generative AI tools to spread antisemitism in the digital universe.”
Engagement patterns were particularly alarming. CyberWell found that posts glorifying or calling for violence against Jews accounted for 33 percent of the content and generated 41 percent of total engagement, illustrating that the most extreme material spread the fastest and reached the widest audiences. Importantly, according to CyberWell’s previous State of Online Antisemitism 2025 report, this means that violent antisemitic content was twice as likely to be found in AI-generated content than user-generated antisemitic content.
The report also highlights the inconsistencies in platform enforcement. TikTok accounted for the largest share of content (36 percent) while also demonstrating the highest enforcement rate (88 percent). Instagram accounted for the largest engagement rate (65 percent), disproportionate to its overall share of the posts (25 percent). TikTok and Meta (Instagram’s parent corporation) recorded significantly higher removal rates than their average for antisemitic posts, likely due in part to having more explicit policy frameworks addressing AI-generated content. By contrast, YouTube and X recorded significantly lower removal rates (28 and 20 percent respectively) and do not maintain similarly explicit policy provisions.
While these rates represent eventual moderation of content when content was reported to the platforms, the enforcement of AI-generated material is often delayed and frequently remains online long enough to accumulate hundreds of thousands or millions of views before its removal.
“Platforms must move beyond disclosure and invest in systems that identify harmful narratives at scale, including those embedded in audio, visuals and coded formats that evade traditional detection,” added Cohen Montemayor.
“Generative AI is a powerful technology, but it is also being weaponized at scale. By strengthening automated detection, investing in competent and transparent human moderation, auditing training data and partnering with specialized external stakeholders, platforms and AI developers can address the complex and fast-evolving forms of online hate through sustained collaboration between technology companies, policymakers and expert partners,” she added.
The full report can be found at: https://cyberwell.org/reports/ai-generated-antisemitism/
CyberWell is an independent, tech-based nonprofit combating the spread of antisemitism online, operating globally. Its AI-technologies monitor social media in English and Arabic for posts that promulgate antisemitism, Holocaust denial and promote violence against Jews and their allies based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Its analysts review and report this content to platform moderators while indexing all verified posts in the first-ever open database of antisemitic social media posts, cataloguing it openly for transparency at app.cyberwell.org. Through partnerships, education and real-time alerts, CyberWell partners with social media platforms and digital service companies to help them enforce their policies more effectively, promoting proactive steps against online Jew- hate. For more information, visit: https://cyberwell.org/.
