From the Frontlines: ADL Releases its Holocaust Denial Report Card for Social Media Companies

"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and all forms of hate in the United States and around the world. In this battle, a particularly pernicious form of antisemitism is Holocaust denial. It is of course absurd and deeply offensive. It is also extremely troubling as our eyewitnesses - the survivors of the Holocaust - are mostly gone. After a long battle, many social media companies have finally agreed to ban this form of hate from their sites. But, how well are they managing to keep Holocaust denial from polluting their pages? That is the subject of this show. Daniel Kelley, the Director of Strategy and Operations for ADL’s Center for Technology and Society or CTS, recently completed an assessment of how well these companies are responding. It is called ADL’s Holocaust Denial Report Card, and he joined the show to tell us about it. CTS is ADL's unit which fights antisemitism and hate in digital social spaces. To learn more about the Center for Technology and Society, visit: https://www.adl.org/research-centers/center-technology-society. This podcast originally aired as a radio show on May 16, 2023 on WVOX 1460 AM.