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Twitter ignored Hitler and holocaust denial tweets as abuse ‘didn’t break rules’, antisemitism charity claims

By Rhiannon Williams
Technology Correspondent
July 27, 2021 12:07 pm (Updated 12:08 pm)
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/twitter-campaign-against-antisemitism-1121733

Twitter is “neither capable or interested” in fighting antisemitism after allowing hundreds of abusive tweets including posts saying ‘Hitler was right’ and denying the holocaust to remain on its platform, its former charity partner has claimed.

The charity Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) accused the social media company of using it as “some sort of fig leaf” by briefly partnering with it after grime artist Wiley posted a stream of anti-Jewish tweets in July last year.

The CAA, which reported Wiley to the police at the time, said it was invited to become a ‘Twitter partner’ shortly after the incident.

Twitter partners are able to report abuse and other forms of problematic materials directly through the company’s ‘partner portal’ for review by human moderators instead of AI systems.

The charity compiled 1,000 antisemitic tweets, some of which featured the hashtag #HitlerWasRight, the phrase “Holohoax” and references to “fake Jewish Holocaust” and calls to “Gas the Jews” across a series of monthly reports submitted in December, January and February.
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