Royal commission told antisemitism flourishes on Elon Musk’s X, as online hate routinely gets a leave pass on social media

Tech focused news site Startup Daily has covered OHPI CEO Dr Andre Oboler’s testimony to the Royal Commission.

They discuss how social media platforms X and Reddit only remove a fraction of antisemitic posts, citing figures presented to the commission by OHPI, as well as the challenge of AI.

“But AI was presenting new challenges, Dr Oboler said, as users could find relatively easy ways to bypass hate-speech filters.

“What it’s doing is allowing someone to upload a volume of new anti-Semitic content very rapidly,” he told the royal commission into anti-Semitism.”

“X marks the problem” is another concern, as Elon Musk’s platform shows a growing rate of antisemitism.

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