"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and all forms of hate in the United States and around the world. In this battle, a particularly pernicious form of antisemitism is Holocaust denial. It is of course absurd and deeply offensive. It is also extremely troubling as our eyewitnesses - the survivors of the Holocaust - are mostly gone. After a long battle, many social media companies have finally agreed to ban this form of hate from their sites. But, how well are they managing to keep Holocaust denial from polluting their pages? That is the subject of this show. Daniel Kelley, the Director of Strategy and Operations for ADL’s Center for Technology and Society or CTS, recently completed an assessment of how well these companies are responding. It is called ADL’s Holocaust Denial Report Card, and he joined the show to tell us about it. CTS is ADL's unit which fights antisemitism and hate in digital social spaces. To learn more about the Center for Technology and Society, visit: https://www.adl.org/research-centers/center-technology-society. This podcast originally aired as a radio show on May 16, 2023 on WVOX 1460 AM.

From the Frontlines: ADL Releases its Holocaust Denial Report Card for Social Media Companies

"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast which brings listeners to the frontline in the battle against antisemitism and hate.

It seems that with every news item, an active misinformation and disinformation campaign pops up almost immediately to fit a skewed narrative or agenda. Battling against this is a major frontline in the fight against hate. We certainly have seen this in the wake of the horrific Hamas attack against Israel on 10/7, and as we approach the November 2024 election, this only has the potential to get worse. 

This past week, the ADL activist group known as ADL New Jersey decided to host a very important webinar on this topic with two ADL experts, moderated by Scott Richman, the host of this podcast. It was called, “Misinformation and Disinformation: What Can You Do?” and an edited version is now available here as a podcast. 

The experts on this program were Sara Aniano and Daniel Kelley. Sara is a Disinformation Analyst at the ADL’s Center on Extremism, and Daniel Kelley is the Director of Strategy and Operations and Acting Head of the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS).

For more information about ADL's Center on Extremism, visit https://www.adl.org/research-centers/center-on-extremism, and for more information on ADL's Center for Technology and Society, visit https://www.adl.org/research-centers/center-technology-society.

This podcast is an edited version of an ADL New York/New Jersey program which took place on July 25, 2024.

From the Frontlines: Misinformation and Disinformation - What Can You Do?

"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast which brings listeners to the frontline in the battle against antisemitism and hate.

Ensuring that the information which people receive is accurate and not biased is a critical component in the fight against antisemitism and hate. Wikipedia has become a go-to source for information as the largest online encyclopedia, which available in over 300 languages. It is one of the most visited websites globally, with over 4.4 billion unique visitors last month alone. Unfortunately, a new ADL report has also found extensive evidence of a biased, coordinated campaign on Wikipedia related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This podcast focuses on what ADL has uncovered and ADL's recommendations for fixing this issue. 

Daniel Kelley is the guest for this podcast. He is the Director of Strategy and Operations for ADL’s Center for Technology and Society. This center spearheaded the research into Wikipedia.

To read the full report, visit: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-israel-and-anti-jewish-bias-undermines-wikipedias-neutrality.

This conversation was recorded for podcast in April 2025.



From the Frontlines: How Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Bias Undermines Wikipedia’s Neutrality

"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast which brings listeners to the frontline in the battle against antisemitism and hate through conversations with ADL staff who are living that battle every day.

Today's frontline is unlike any we've faced before - it's digital, it's rapidly evolving, and it's reshaping how hate spreads and how we fight it. Nowhere is this more clear than with artificial intelligence. The irony, though is that the same technology that holds incredible promise for fighting hate is also being weaponized to spread it at unprecedented speed and scale. Today's conversation explores both sides of this digital battleground with three experts who are literally on the frontlines of this technological fight. 

1. Daniel Kelley, Director of Strategy and Operations at ADL's Center for Technology and Society. Daniel leads ADL’s efforts to understand how emerging technologies impact hate and extremism, and he's been instrumental in developing ADL's approach to AI governance.

2. Sara Aniano, a Disinformation Analyst at ADL's Center on Extremism. Sara tracks how AI is being used to create and spread false narratives that fuel antisemitism and other forms of hate, and her work helps us stay ahead of rapidly evolving disinformation tactics.

3. Tomer Poran, Vice President of Solution Strategy at ActiveFence, a company that uses AI to detect and counter online harms. Tomer brings a private sector perspective on how technology companies are grappling with these challenges and developing solutions.

Together, they help us understand not just the threats we face, but the tools we have to fight back.

This conversation was originally recorded in June 2025 as a moderated panel at ADL New York/New Jersey’s Annual Meeting. In the audience were the region’s top leaders and donors.

To read more about ADL's concerns about artificial intelligence, click here to view a recently released report on the subject from ADL's Center for Technology and Society: https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/anti-jewish-and-anti-israel-bias-found-leading-ai-models-new-adl-report.

Correction: Please note that a statistic was used at minute 29:40 where Sara Aniano was talking about usage of ADL’s AI software. She said that it has analyzed "300 million text based messages," but she should have said "30 million text based messages."

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