State Hate: How Iran's Press TV Uses Social Media to Promote Anti-Jewish Hatred
With ADL: Iran's state broadcaster weaponizes social platforms to spread antisemitic conspiracy content.
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This report, produced by CCDH together with the Anti-Defamation League, examines how Iran's state broadcaster Press TV uses social media to distribute antisemitic content, focusing on its "Palestine Declassified" video series. The analysis found that roughly half of the series' episodes promoted antisemitic narratives, including conspiracy theories about coordinated Jewish influence, and that the series reached an estimated 11.5 million followers, mainly via Twitter and Facebook, with 51% of Press TV's web traffic originating from Western countries such as the US, UK, Canada, France, and Australia.
The report also cites separate CCDH findings that major platforms failed to remove 84% of antisemitic content reported through their own moderation systems in 2021, and references ADL data showing a 36% rise in US antisemitic incidents in 2022, the highest recorded since 1979.
The report characterizes Press TV's social media activity as a state-run influence operation and calls for stronger platform enforcement of existing hate-speech policies and greater accountability for state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.
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