New York, NY, June 10, 2025 – A shareholder proposal designed to hold Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) (“Meta” or the “Company”) accountable for the rampant hateful content across its social media platforms is the top ranked human-rights related shareholder proposal of the 2025 proxy season to date according to research by JLens, the proponent of the proposal. Proposal 8, introduced by JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), urged Meta to address hate on…

New York, NY, May 28, 2025 ... JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor affiliated with ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), today announced that the two leading independent proxy advisory firms have issued recommendations in favor of a JLens-sponsored shareholder proposal to combat hateful content at Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) (“Meta” or the “Company”). The proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (&ldquo…

New York, NY, May 8, 2025, …  Researchers at the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) found that Jewish Members of Congress have experienced a nearly five-fold increase in antisemitic harassment on Facebook since Meta rolled back its moderation policy at the start of the year.  Following this policy shift, ADL stated its deep concerns, saying that this change would be a "step backward" and allow increased hate, antisemitism,…

New York, NY, April 28, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today jointly called on shareholders of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) (“Meta” or the “Company”) to support Shareholder Proposal 8, which appears in the proxy for the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders, scheduled to be held on May 28, 2025.  JLens’ proposal urges Meta shareholders to vote FOR a measure requesting the Company to…

New York, NY, March 25, 2025, … ADL (The Anti-Defamation League) released today the most comprehensive evaluation to date of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias in major large language models (LLMs) - GPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), and Llama (Meta). The ADL Center for Technology and Society, in collaboration with ADL’s Ratings and Assessments Institute, evaluated responses from four leading AI models, and uncovered concerning patterns of bias,…

New York, NY, January 17, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the disciplinary action taken against multiple editors by the Wikipedia arbitration committee in the wake of a massive effort by anti-Israel editors to spread misinformation and hate across the platform. Among those topic-banned by Wikipedia from the Israel-Palestine discussion were Iskandar323, Selfstudier, Nableezy, Levivich and Nishidani – all of whom ADL has identified as being part of a bad-faith…

New York, NY, January 16, 2025, …  Hate and harassment was recorded in almost half of online multiplayer game sessions tested with a range of religious, ethnic and national identity-based usernames, shows new research conducted by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society. Examples of hate and harassment included racial slurs, trash-talking or disrupted play. Identity-based harassment was present in one-third of play sessions across the four games …

New York, NY, January 7, 2025 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) expressed deep concern today about Meta’s policy announcement in terms of their commitment to addressing antisemitism and hate. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: “It is mind blowing how one of the most profitable companies in the world, operating with such sophisticated technology, is taking significant steps back in terms of addressing antisemitism, hate,…

New York, NY, November 14, 2024, …  More than 1.8 million unique pieces of extremist or hateful content, including explicitly antisemitic, neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorist material, were identified on Steam, the world’s largest and most popular online gaming marketplace, new research from ADL (Anti-Defamation League) finds. In an unprecedented platform-wide capture of all publicly available profiles, groups and comments (as of July 2024), the ADL Center on Extremism (COE)…

New York, NY, October 31, 2024, …  While false and misleading election narratives are surging on social media in the lead up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, major platforms have weakened their rules against disseminating election misinformation, according to a new ADL (Anti-Defamation League) report. Researchers at the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) have also found that some platforms – primarily X (formerly Twitter) – have…

La tarjeta de calificaciones de las redes sociales revela la falta de acción consistente de las principales plataformas ante el odio antisemita reportado por los usuarios  Nueva York, NY, 30 de septiembre de 2024 ... Una nueva tarjeta de calificaciones publicada hoy por la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) encontró que cinco de las principales plataformas de medios sociales —Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube y X— rutinariamente no toman medidas sobre el odio…

New York, NY, September 30, 2024 … A new scorecard released today by ADL (Anti-Defamation League) found that five major social media platforms – Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X – routinely fail to act on antisemitic hate reported through regular channels available to users.  The ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) evaluated both policy and enforcement around antisemitism and issued grades to each of the five platforms based on a fixed set of criteria…

Sacramento, CA. August 28, 2024… Several major social media platforms are not complying fully with either the letter or the spirit of a new California law aimed at holding them accountable for spreading hate and harassment. A new report released by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) evaluates the first rounds of transparency reporting for social media platforms as required by this first-of-its-kind law. in California with the goal of…

New York, NY, August 1, 2024 ... A new report released today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) reveals that a group of moderators of Jewish communities on Reddit faced with increased antisemitism on the social media platform reached out to ADL for support. Based on research into these moderators’ experiences, ADL engaged with Reddit, which led the platform to take several important steps to stem instances of antisemitism on the site and to…

New York, NY, June 17, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today praised the U.S. Surgeon General's call for a warning label on social media platforms, saying that it was a welcome development that health professions are working alongside researchers, policymakers and advocates in thinking creatively about helping targets of online hate and harassment. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: "The Surgeon General’s call for a…

New York, NY, June 10, 2024 … More than half of all Americans - 56 percent - report experiencing online hate or harassment in their lifetimes, continuing an upward trend, according to ADL’s sixth annual Survey of Online Hate and Harassment – the highest rate since 2020. At a time when antisemitic incidents are at historic levels, 34 percent of Jewish adults who were harassed online reported being targeted because of their religion in the past 12 months. In addition, 63…

New York, NY, June 6, 2024 …  Researchers at the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) found that some Facebook groups in local communities have become toxic sites of harassment, particularly identity-based harassment against Jews, women, LGBTQ+ advocates, immigrants, and people of color. Through interviews with community members, targets of the harassment and other stakeholders, combined with online observation, content analysis, and data scraping,…

New York, NY, October 27, 2022 ... ADL (Anti-Defamation League) CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt issued the following statement regarding Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter: "Despite my reservations, I was cautiously optimistic that Elon Musk would take the concerns of civil society to heart, but developments over the past two weeks have been troubling. This includes, but is not limited to, Mr. Musk warmly welcoming back Ye to Twitter after Ye made antisemitic comments on…

Experienced advocate for tech transparency and accountability to lead ADL’s efforts to combat online hate and harassmentNew York, NY, September 29, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced that it has hired Yael Eisenstat as Vice President, where she will lead the Center for Technology and Society (CTS). Eisenstat is an experienced leader and outspoken advocate for transparency and accountability in the tech industry. Eisenstat has spent more than 20 years…

ADL and partners call for More Data, Stronger Community GuidelinesNew York, NY, July 27, 2022 – One-in-four moderation actions across three private servers of the popular video game Minecraft are in response to online hate and harassment, according to a study published today by ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society, in collaboration with Take This, Gamersafer and the Middlebury Institute's Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism. “As with…