A World Jewish Congress audit published August 13, 2026, found that 613 of 754 reported antisemitic posts — 81.3% — remained publicly accessible on major social media platforms as of May 2026, with the organization concluding that platform self-regulatory mechanisms are failing users.
WJC audit finds 81% of reported antisemitic content remained online across major platforms
A World Jewish Congress audit published August 13, 2026, found that 613 of 754 reported antisemitic posts — 81.3% — remained publicly accessible on major social media platforms as of May 2026, with the organization concluding that platform self-regulatory mechanisms are failing users.
The study, titled 'Flagged and Failed: Platform Responses to Antisemitic Content Reported by Jewish Communities,' was conducted under the WJC's Hate Online: Preparedness and Empowerment (HO:PE) project, co-funded by the European Union under the CERV program. The WJC describes it as the first systematic, community-sourced dataset of online antisemitism gathered across the EU via a purpose-built reporting application.
Community members across Europe used a dedicated tool to document antisemitic URLs, categorize them using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of antisemitism, and indicate whether they had formally flagged the posts to host platforms. After filtering invalid entries, the dataset covered six major social media platforms. A liveness check was conducted throughout May 2026 to assess whether reported content was still accessible.
Facebook accounted for the highest share of submissions at 34.4%, followed by Instagram and X/Twitter at 26% each, and TikTok at 9.7%. The overall removal rate for content formally flagged to platforms was approximately 19%, compared with roughly 18% for content that was not flagged — a difference the study characterizes as showing formal reporting made virtually no measurable impact.
Platform-specific data showed that Facebook had the highest user-reporting rate in the dataset, with 76% of its 259 entries formally flagged, yet recorded the lowest overall removal rate among major platforms at 13.9%. Instagram and X both showed removal rates of 12% to 15%. TikTok removed 64.4% of all content in its dataset and 70.6% of content explicitly reported to it, making it the only major platform where the study recorded a majority of audited posts being taken down.
By content category, Israel-related antisemitism had the lowest removal rate at 5.2%. Content comparing Israeli policy to Nazism showed no removals across all 28 documented reports. Explicit incitement to violence carried the highest removal rate at nearly 35%, though the report notes that material such as terrorist propaganda and direct calls to murder still frequently remained online. A legal assessment estimated that roughly 6% of all submissions crossed thresholds warranting individual criminal examination under European law, including the EU Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia.
- The source does not include responses from Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, or TikTok to the audit's findings.
- The source does not state the total number of European Jewish community members who participated in the reporting initiative or how they were recruited.
- The source does not specify how many of the approximately 6% of submissions estimated to cross legal thresholds have been or will be referred to law enforcement.
- The source does not describe the criteria used to filter out invalid entries before arriving at the 754-report dataset.
- The source does not state whether the audit has been independently peer-reviewed or verified by any party outside the WJC.
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