Former Archbishop of Canterbury becomes Honorary Patron of CAA
We are delighted to announce that the former Archbishop of Canterbury has become an Honorary Patron of Campaign Against Antisemitism. The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Dr The Lord Carey of Clifton PC RVC GBE FRSA served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. Both during his tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury and since, Lord […]
Facebook, Twitter and Google must use their antisemite profiling technology to expel bigots instead of selling ads
Following the discovery that Facebook’s advertising algorithm offered advertisers the opportunity to target categories of users whose views were summarised as “Jew hater”, “How to burn Jews”, or “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world’”, it has now emerged that Twitter and Google also provide an means of targeting antisemites on their platforms. Twitter has […]
CAA complains over Apple iMessage’s animated caricature of a hook-nosed Jew wiping his posterior with money
Campaign Against Antisemitism has been alerted to an antisemitic caricature within Apple’s iMessage app. Searching for an animation (known as an animated GIF) to accompany a message, one of our supporters, Mordy Jackson, searched for “Take my money”, only to be presented with an antisemitic caricature of a hook-nosed Jew wiping his posterior with a […]
Facebook apologises for allowing advertisers to target antisemites, but will it now target them, and what will it do with the profits?
Facebook has been forced to apologise after its advertising algorithm was found to be allowing advertisers to target antisemites whose interests were summarised by the algorithm as: “Jew hater”, “How to burn Jews”, or “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world’”. That this quirk of Facebook’s advertising algorithm had gone unnoticed is somewhat scandalous, but the […]