Nearly two million posts with the hashtag #IsraeliNewNazism appeared on X in that period, and another 40,000 posts featured the hashtag #ZionistsAreEvil or #ZionistsAreNazis.
In previous months, the hashtag appeared fewer than 5,000 times a month.
Other sites, including TikTok and Facebook, have also experienced surges in hate speech but have removed the content that was flagged to them, researchers said.
The hate speech that remained was often more veiled, such as a TikTok trend of using “Austrian painter” as code for Adolf Hitler.
From Oct. 7 to Oct. 13, she added, TikTok took down 730,000 videos for violating hate speech rules.
Persons:
IsraeliNewNazism, HitlerWasRight, —, LevelGaza, Memetica, ”, Adolf Hitler, TikTok, Pepe the, Noam Schwartz, “, Adi Cohen
Organizations:
Defamation League, Defamation, Facebook, Times, Palestinian, Nova, 4chan
Locations:
Austrian, Palestine, Israel, Florida, Gaza