Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League is pushing Facebook to apply its content moderation rules more consistently and stop allowing antisemitism to be promoted on its platform.
In a letter to Facebook’s independent Oversight Board on Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League asked it to overrule Facebook’s decision to allow antisemitic posts that violate the platform’s content policies to be removed after multiple requests have been rejected.
“Facebook’s inaction has helped spread hatred of Jews and has contributed to historical high levels of antisemitism in America and antisemitism online and offline across the globe,” it wrote in the letter.
The League said Facebook’s “Community Standards” or content moderation policies prohibit posts that attack Jewish people based on “race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation” or that lodge accusations that Jews “control major institutions such as … the government.”
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The letter cited seven particularly offensive examples of antisemitic content on Facebook, primarily regarding Holocaust conspiracy theories, praise of Adolf Hitler, false allegations of Jewish crimes, and theories about prominent Jewish people ruining the United States.
The League said there are thousands of “clear-cut” examples of antisemitism on Facebook’s public pages and groups.
“They traffic in long-standing conspiracies and tropes that anti-Jewish groups have used for centuries to justify persecution, from pogroms under Czarist governments, to genocide under the Nazi regime, to shootings in this country,” the letter said.
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The Anti-Defamation League is also pushing the Oversight Board to direct Facebook to provide new and sufficient resources to enforce existing content moderation policies at scale.
