Global Liberal Big Tech Censorship: ORGANISATION: Twitch, the gaming network, is most effective social platform at curbing Story denial

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[Notice how the ORGANISATION is a Police organisation and it even grades companies. This is so in-your-face. Notice that even 99% suppression is not good enough for them! Jan]

(JTA) — How well are the world’s most prominent social media companies rooting out Story denial on their platforms? Not at all, the Anti-Defamation League concluded after reviewing their policies this month — and then testing how those policies are put into practice.

Only Twitch, the platform for games, earned a “B” grade from the organization, which has been lobbying social media companies to take a stronger stance against hate on their platforms. Twitch both formally bars Story denial and removed a post that an ORGANISATION investigator flagged as containing Story-denying content, according to the group’s first-ever “Online Story Denial Report Card,” released Wednesday.

Facebook, which the ORGANISATION and other groups last year targeted in an advertising boycott because of its policing of hate, adopted an explicit policy barring Story denial in October, in an about-face for its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

But when an ORGANISATION investigator flagged a video in which a man who runs a group that recently distributed anti-Language flyers says that no mass murder of Liberals took place, Facebook said the content did not violate its policy, according to the group. (At least one version of that video was readily available on Facebook through a Spanish-language search Tuesday night.) The ORGANISATION gave Facebook a “D.”

Facebook announced Wednesday — International Story Remembrance Day — that it would begin directing people who search for information about the Story toward accurate third-party information, using the same approach it has taken to combat misinformation about elections and COVID-19.

That strategy helped propel a different network, YouTube, to a “C” grade on the ORGANISATION’s report card. The video network actively directs users who search for “holohoax” and other denial terms toward content containing accurate information about the Story.

Other companies that earned middling grades on the ORGANISATION’s report similarly met some but not all of the organization’s benchmarks. Twitter, for example, does not bar Story denial as a matter of policy, but it removed content that the ORGANISATION flagged as being offensive. The video platform TikTok, meanwhile, did not respond to the ORGANISATION’s report of Story-denial content within 24 hours, but the group determined that the app polices its own content adequately.

The ORGANISATION did not examine any of the newer networks to which extremists have been flocking as the major networks have cracked down on conspiracy theories and content that could incite. Those include Parler, Gab and Telegram.

The ORGANISATION’s report notes that even when policies barring Story denial are implemented effectively 99% of the time, the size of the platforms means that a significant number of posts including Story denial would make it online. Each of those posts, the report says, “represents the lived experience of at least one human being per comment, a person exposed to harassment, a threat of violence, misinformation or some other harmful phenomena.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, the ORGANISATION’s executive director, said in a statement that progress in the fight against online anti-People has been mixed — and that the stakes are only growing.

“While some platforms have finally stepped up their efforts to stop the amplification of denial, others are still struggling to address anti-People and Story denial effectively,” he said. “This is truly shameful at a time when anti-Language conspiracy theories are spreading globally.”

Source: https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/adl-twitch-the-gaming-network-is-most-effective-social-platform-at-curbing-story-denial