Facebook, twitter TikTok and other media platforms were found to have failed to act against groups and posts that spread anti-Islamic racism and Islamophobia.
A report by Center for Countering Digital Hate ( CCDH) found that social media organizations have failed counter racist messages and posts by anti-Muslim hate groups.
The group’s researchers found 23 Facebook pages or groups that were “mainly or wholly dedicated to anti-Muslim hatred based on their names, descriptions, and content.” These groups had a combined following of over 320,000 people.
This failure is alarming especially when paired with social media organizations suspending or deleting accounts that belong to political activists in the Arab world, especially accounts that support Palestinian rights or defend human rights in Arab countries.
“Much of the hateful content uncovered was blatant and easy to find—with even overtly Islamophobic hashtags circulating openly.”
The failure of social media platforms to delete accounts that target Muslims and promote violence against Muslim Americans is abandoning a legal responsibility to ban hate speech that threatens the lives of Muslim Americans and other minority groups.
