How much antisemitism on the internet is genuine and how much is artificially generated? This question takes on new urgency following Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers. Suddenly, anti-Israel hate speech, antisemitic comments, and political propaganda on social networks are said to have declined significantly. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even speaks of a 60 percent drop in hostile Russian online activities against Israel. If confirmed, this would be an alarming indication of how deliberately foreign actors can amplify hatred toward Israel and Jews. But there is one crucial catch: the most striking data published so far concerns search engine crawlers and not verifiably political hate accounts. Did Ukraine’s drones actually strike part of the digital hate machinery, or is a technical outage being prematurely celebrated as a political triumph?
Following Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reports a dramatic decline in antisemitic online activities. But experts doubt that the widely cited figures actually demonstrate the disappearance of political bots. Ukrainian drone strikes disrupted three data centers belonging to the Russian technology...
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