CyberWell is the premier nonprofit initiative that tracks online antisemitism in multiple languages and works globally with social media platforms to reduce Jew-hatred at scale. We leverage the best available technologies & AI to curate implementable solutions for addressing antisemitism in the digital era. CyberWell's real-time online antisemitism compliance service and alerts are designed in consideration of the policies, operations, and structures of the big tech companies, so that they can be easily implemented by those stakeholders. Our mission: To drive the enforcement and improvement of hate speech policies and community standards, making our digital spaces safer for Jews globally.
Since May 2022, CyberWell has been consistently monitoring Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube in English and Arabic, and serves as a trusted partner for both Meta & TikTok. Our flagship initiative is the first ever open database of online antisemitic content, used by academics, policy makers, journalists, and leaders in the Jewish community to empower their efforts with data. These graphics sum up a portion of our findings for 2024.
* This is an increase of 17.9% from 2023, when CyberWell detected a removal rate of 32.1%, and an increase of 26.2% from 2022, when CyberWell detected a removal rate of just 23.8%.
** Removal rates may be higher than for a typical social media user as CyberWell reported all violative content shortly after analysis and through our Trusted Partner channel for Meta and TikTok.
CyberWell was the first organization to identify and alert to the new trend in Jew-hatred – the denial that the events of October 7, 2023, including the massacre at the Nova festival and sexual assault, ever happened.
TikTok was the first social media platform to publicly recognize the denial of sexual violence on October 7 as prohibited content, crediting CyberWell for leading this initiative. They have since recognized all October 7 denial as prohibited. CyberWell continues to lobby and urge social media platforms to follow suit.
"This content is strictly prohibited and removed from TikTok, and we are grateful to our partners at CyberWell who help us continually strengthen how we protect our platform and combat antisemitism online," a TikTok representative said in an e-mailed response.
Following months of data collection, analysis, and consultation, in July 2024 Meta formally updated their policy to include the term “Zionist” as a proxy for “Jew” in antisemitic conspiracy theories, incitement to violence, and dehumanizing remarks. Proving the power of precedent-setting, TikTok followed suit. CyberWell continues to work with our partners to provide datasets to train their classifiers and will be closely monitoring enforcement throughout 2025.
Following the October 7 attacks committed by Hamas, CyberWell identified a noticeable rise in antisemitic rhetoric across all online platforms that we monitor. The sharpest increase was by 86% in the three weeks following the attack, while the 11 months post-October 7 saw a 36% increase in online Jew-hatred. More alarmingly, we saw a doubling in outright calls to violence against Jews from 5.1% to 13.3%. Calls to violence were particularly prominent following violent incidents, both those targeting Jews, such as the attacks in Amsterdam, Australia, and Canada, as well as global tragedies, such as the New Years Day attack in New Orleans
Some platforms acknowledged the challenge and publicized their efforts to address increasing hate, calls to violence, and dis- and misinformation. On October 13, 2023 (updated on December 5, 2023), Meta recognized the October 7 attacks as a terrorist act under their Dangerous Organization and Individuals (DOI) policy, leading them to remove content that displayed identifiable victims. On November 13, 2023, TikTok also took steps to reduce hate on its platform and noted that they were engaged in ongoing discussions, including CyberWell, to help them swiftly identify and remove violative content.
CyberWell has identified a clear pattern emerging, similar to that of Holocaust denial, of fabricating accusations and promulgating conspiratorial beliefs such as blaming Jews and Israelis for global events as well as the very violence directed against them. One of the most prevalent distortion narratives has become the "false flag", which accuses Jews and Israelis of orchestrating these events for their own gain.
When analyzing data on the removal of denial and distortion content related to October 7 versus the Holocaust, we found that the latter has significantly higher removal rates. The stark difference may lie in the fact that most platforms explicitly forbid Holocaust denial but have yet to create similar explicit policies for October 7 denial and distortion. While they do have general policies related to violent event denial, the more specific the policy the more it seems to be actioned, leaving up content that denies violent events, even when well documented, which is then leveraged to call for more violence against the Jewish community. Despite the progress made by some social media platforms, CyberWell urges all platforms to acknowledge the ongoing impact of online antisemitism manifesting as real-world violence against the Jewish community, the very real national security threat that such violent rhetoric poses, and the importance of updating policies and moderation efforts to recognize the latest and ever evolving trends, and then take steps to curb such content. Otherwise, in 2025, we will continue to be fed a steady diet of algorithmically reinforced hatred, violence, and calls to terror with very real consequences offline.
In 2024 CyberWell analyzed 326 antisemitic posts related to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism examples 4 & 5 – Holocaust denial and distortion. It is concerning to note that the quantity of Holocaust hate speech has steadily increased by 3% annually. As CyberWell noted previously, Holocaust denial experienced a resurgence following October 7, 2023, which could account for some of this increase. At the same time, we also detected a marked improvement in the removal rate of Holocaust related content in general, as well as a tightening of the disparity between actioning content in English vs Arabic. This improvement may be due to several updates in methodology, including reporting content shortly after vetting and reporting violative content through our Trusted Partner channel.
(Facbook & Instagram)
* Percentage reflects the amount of content out of the full annual dataset, which CyberWell categorizes according to the 11 IHRA examples, that contains IHRA examples 4 & 5.
** Some posts contained both IHRA examples 4 & 5.
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