Anti-Defamation League Study Shows “Significant Uptick” In Anti-Semitic Twitter

Source: BuzzFeed News | October 19, 2016 | Charlie Warzel

Anti-Defamation League Study Shows “Significant Uptick” In Anti-Semitic Twitter Abuse

“This is not just an ADL problem or a Twitter problem. It’s everyone’s problem.”

A graph from the Anti-Defamation League study showing spikes in anti-Semitic harassment on Twitter. ADL

Harassment and abuse on Twitter is rampant. In recent years, the platform has become a primary destination for trolls and hate groups. And as the US election season reaches its final stretch, the social network can feel increasingly toxic to women and minority groups. Today, a recently published report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) offers some hard data that suggests Twitter is growing more and more anti-Semitic and increasingly hostile toward journalists.

The report — which spans nearly one year from August 2015 to July 2016 — monitored the anti-Semitic targeting of journalists throughout the current presidential race. The study found roughly 2.6 million anti-Semitic tweets, creating more than 10 billion impressions across the web. Of those tweets, 19,253 were directed at journalists.

The report shows that during the study’s time frame, at least 800 journalists were the target of an anti-Semitic tweet. Distribution was far from even, with the 10 most targeted journalists receiving 83% of the abusive, anti-Semitic tweets. According to the ADL, the harassment it charted was carried out largely by a vocal minority. The report found that just 1,600 Twitter accounts generated 68% of the anti-Semitic tweets aimed at journalists during this time period.

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