How AJC is Engaging with Tech, Social Media, and AI Companies
According to AJC’s State of Antisemitism in America 2025 Report, 73% of Jewish adults have experienced antisemitic content online or on social media at least once in the past 12 months, including 5% who saw antisemitic content on online gaming platforms. This overall number increases to 87% for young American Jews ages 18-29, with 13% seeing antisemitism on online gaming platforms. Nearly one in four (39%) American Jews have avoided posting content online that would identify them as Jewish or reveal their views on Jewish issues
Online antisemitism and misinformation about Jews and Israel have offline consequences. Among American Jews who experienced antisemitism online or on social media, 20% report these incidents made them feel physically threatened.
American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a trusted global partner for social media companies, providing early warning insights, policy expertise, and community impact data while delivering practical tools—from direct flagging channels to tailored trainings—that help platforms detect and address antisemitism more effectively, strengthen content moderation, and build trust with users worldwide.
Working Directly with Tech Companies to Counter Antisemitism
AJC is a trusted flagger or early warning partner for social media companies, meaning we have direct access channels to report issues with content moderation and violations of community guidelines, standards, and policies.
We contribute to policy development by raising awareness of antisemitism and its various manifestations.
Through Meta’s Policy Forum, AJC shared how the word “Zionist” is often used as coded language to attack Jews and Israelis and about the offline harm this proxy language has on Jewish life around the world. AJC, along with other stakeholders, contributed to Meta’s 2024 policy to remove content targeting “Zionists” when the term is used to refer to Jews and Israelis with dehumanizing comparisons, calls for harm, or denials of existence.
AJC sent a major letter signed by over 20,000 people to six tech company CEOs on their responsibility in preventing antisemitism on their platforms and products, including the need to adopt and enforce policies that protect Jews facing threats to their rights to life and physical integrity, to freedom of religion or belief, and the right to participate in public and cultural life.
Building Trusted Relationships to Drive Action
We bring delegations of leaders from tech, social media, and AI companies to Israel through AJC Project Interchange. These trips help companies’ senior officials develop a better understanding of Jewish history, identity, and heritage. Through on the ground experiences and firsthand accounts, participants learn about the Jewish community and its diversity, what Israel means to Jews, and the line between criticism of Israel and antisemitism.
We deliver trainings on antisemitism to policy and trust and safety teams, including partnering with external experts on specific platforms to develop content and recommendations that keep the company’s mission and culture in mind and are tailored to fit the company’s needs.
Former Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg shared, “The communication we have had with you, and other close partners, has mattered, it really has, because these external perspectives help us improve our policies. Our experience with AJC has been that you are people who we can really trust and learn from.”
Bringing Reliable Data and Resources to Tech Companies
We publish extensively researched data on American Jews’ perceptions of and experiences with antisemitism online and on specific social media platforms, and where the general U.S. public sees antisemitism. We also partner with data scientists to measure online antisemitic content’s reach and demographic trends in order to share with the companies.
We provide educational resources on antisemitism, such as Translate Hate, a visual glossary that explains how tropes, words, and symbols can be antisemitic and hide in plain sight. Companies use these resources to better understand coded language and symbols in their content moderation.
