Rabbi Abraham Cooper, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JNS that large social media companies lack a sense of responsibility to the collective good.
Most major social-media platforms fail to respond to online hate, and extremism disinformation sponsored by foreign states, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual report card on digital terror and hate.
The Los Angeles-based nonprofit scored popular digital platforms on 36 factors, based on “responsiveness to flagged hate speech, enforcement of content policies, transparency, cooperation with law enforcement and adherence to international standards, such as the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and the EU Digital Services Act,” the center stated.
Roblox, a gaming platform for children, was the only platform to get a grade better than a C. It got a B-plus. Facebook (Instagram), Google (YouTube), TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitch, Spotify and Amazon all received C or C-minus grades, while sites like X, Discord, Rumble and Truth Social barely passed, and Telegram and Gab received F grades.