CYBERWELL’S 2024 REPORT HIGHLIGHTS SURGE IN ONLINE ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACIES
TEL AVIV – In its annual report outlining the state of online antisemitism in 2024, CyberWell, the innovative tech nonprofit focused on monitoring and combatting the spread of antisemitism as well as Holocaust denial and distortion online, has identified a clear pattern emerging – that of fabricating accusations and promoting conspiratorial beliefs blaming Jews and Israelis for tragic global events as well as the very violence directed against them, followed by inevitable calls for targeted violence against Jewish communities around the world. 2024’s leading antisemitic tropes on major social media platforms were that Jews control the world or are dominating the world order (Facebook and X); Jews are the ‘Synagogue of Satan’ (YouTube and TikTok) and the Rothschild Conspiracy Theory (Instagram) – that Jews control global banking and finance and leverage that to control governments and the world order. These conspiracies all stem from one underlying claim – that Jews are inherently evil.
CyberWell uses AI technology to monitor for posts in English and Arabic that are consistent with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Each post is then individually vetted by the nonprofit’s analysts and submitted to social media platform moderators alongside the relevant community guidelines and hate speech policies the individual post violates (sometimes referred to as “Trust and Safety”). Simultaneously, the vetted post is published to CyberWell’s open database of antisemitic social media posts, available at app.cyberwell.org. This platform is meant to drive user-led reporting and anyone with a social media account can participate in reporting prohibited Jew-hatred directly to platforms.
In 2024, TikTok was the most effective in moderating antisemitism, with a 65.1 percent removal rate of posts identified by CyberWell. It was followed by X at 54.2 percent, Instagram at 52.2 percent, Facebook at 49.2 percent and YouTube at 17.5 percent. This marks an increase of nearly 18 percent from 2023, where the removal rate stood at 32.1 percent, and a 26.2 percent increase from 2022, when only 23.8 percent of flagged content was removed.Notably, 2024 also saw Meta formally update its policies to recognize the term “Zionist” as a proxy for “Jew” in antisemitic conspiracy theories, incitement to violence and dehumanizing remarks. TikTok followed suit. “While 2024 marked a strong year for moderating antisemitic content online, 2025 has already brought significant challenges in addressing antisemitism through established moderation systems,” said CyberWell Founder and Executive Director Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor.
“As platforms continue to loosen their community trust and safety standards, vulnerable communities—such as the Jewish community, which is facing an alarming and persistent rise in antisemitic attacks—are at greater risk. The harmful voices and calls gaining traction online are directly fueling real-world violence against Jews.”Notably, despite the loosening of moderation standards for hate speech in 2025, Holocaust denial remains unaffected. CyberWell attributes this continued moderation to the clear definitions of Holocaust denial.“To protect members of the Jewish community both online and offline, we are urging platforms to define antisemitism clearly and train moderation algorithms to track, flag, and remove such content proactively,” she said. “Relying on users to report harmful content means the damage has already been done before it can be addressed.”
CyberWell is an independent, international, tech-rooted nonprofit combatting the spread of antisemitism online. Its AI-technologies monitor social media in English and Arabic for posts that promulgate antisemitism, Holocaust denial and promote violence against Jews. Its analysts review and report this content to platform moderators while indexing all verified posts in the first-ever open database of antisemitic social media posts – democratically cataloging it for transparency. Through partnerships, education and real-time alerts, CyberWell is holding social media platforms and their moderators accountable, promoting proactive steps against online Jew-hate. For more information, visit: https://cyberwell.org/.
