There has been an unprecedented 12-fold increase in hateful social media content being referred to specialist police officers since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, according to the UK’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit.
Their overall boss, Matt Jukes, head of Counter Terror Policing, fears that while his team is tasked with tackling the most extreme content, there is a failure by social media companies to deal with the “overall climate” of hate created by algorithms.
They include messages of support for Hamas and requests for funds to travel to join the group, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the UK and other governments.
What I’ve been seeing online matches up with what several human rights groups and campaigners have said about a recent rise in both Islamophobic and antisemitic hate on social media.
The social media company has also said: “We continue to remove any imagery that is produced by a Dangerous Organization or Individual, unless it is clear that the user is sharing it in a news reporting or condemnation context.”
“It seems extraordinary to me that we have this convergence of terrorism risks, experience of hate crimes online and offline and the interest in this conflict from state actors as we go into the year ahead,” says Jukes.
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There has been an unprecedented 12-fold increase in hateful social media content being referred to specialist police officers since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, according to the UK’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit.
Their overall boss, Matt Jukes, head of Counter Terror Policing, fears that while his team is tasked with tackling the most extreme content, there is a failure by social media companies to deal with the “overall climate” of hate created by algorithms.
They include messages of support for Hamas and requests for funds to travel to join the group, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the UK and other governments.
What I’ve been seeing online matches up with what several human rights groups and campaigners have said about a recent rise in both Islamophobic and antisemitic hate on social media.
The social media company has also said: “We continue to remove any imagery that is produced by a Dangerous Organization or Individual, unless it is clear that the user is sharing it in a news reporting or condemnation context.”
“It seems extraordinary to me that we have this convergence of terrorism risks, experience of hate crimes online and offline and the interest in this conflict from state actors as we go into the year ahead,” says Jukes.
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