{"id":319969,"date":"2025-12-15T08:14:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319969"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:02:14","slug":"trumps-israeli-born-pick-for-u-s-anti-semitism-czar-plans-to-work-with-social-media-to-suppress-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319969","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Israeli-Born Pick for U.S. Anti-Semitism Czar Plans to Work With Social Media to Suppress ‘Hatred’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Menahan \u2013 Information Liberation Dec 13, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump’s Israeli-born Chabadnik nominee for US Anti-Semitism Czar, told Jewish Insider this week that he plans to work with social media platforms on their algorithms to suppress “hatred,” and have them label “misinformation” using so-called “AI.”<\/p>\n

From Jewish Insider, “Antisemitism envoy nominee Yehuda Kaploun backs labeling misinformation on social media”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to serve as U.S. antisemitism special envoy, warned in an interview with Jewish Insider that inaccurate, inflammatory content is being allowed to spread on social media, and pledged to work with social networks to curb the spread of antisemitic falsehoods online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ideal outcome is, I want to continue America\u2019s tradition of free speech and allowing free speech anywhere and everywhere, freedom of expression,\u201d Kaploun said. \u201cBut I would like the platforms \u2014 because of the advent of AI and those technologies, you have the ability to recognize when something is not factually correct and it should be labeled as such. I think that\u2019s something that we\u2019d like to target.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

“AI” chatbots don’t “know” anything<\/a>, but thanks for letting us know you don’t either.<\/p>\n

Kaploun spoke to JI on Wednesday, with his Senate confirmation vote for the State Department role expected this month before the holiday recess. His comments about working with social media platforms to label misinformation contradict the approach of the Trump administration, which has urged the major platforms not to \u201ccensor\u201d information.<\/strong> Earlier this year, after Trump took office, Meta announced the end of its fact-checking program, and YouTube eased many of its content moderation policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s many other areas of working with the companies \u2014 the algorithms and things that have been now proven, that bots are busy promoting antisemitic rhetoric on the internet, how we get to some of that and preventing some of that. These are very tall tasks.<\/strong> These are not things that occur overnight,\u201d said Kaploun, a Chabad-trained rabbi and businessman from Miami. \u201cBut I truly believe there is a true willingness of many people within the administration to tackle these problems and confront them head on, globally.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That sounds like a global censorship regime to prevent “anti-Semitic rhetoric.”<\/p>\n

As an example of the kind of content he would seek to flag as false, Kaploun referred to a July New York Times article about the hunger that many civilians in Gaza were experiencing during Israel\u2019s war against Hamas. The Times published a correction regarding the article several days after it was published, once it was revealed that a child who was featured prominently in the article as an example of malnutrition had preexisting health conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The misrepresentation in the photo could contribute to antisemitism, according to Kaploun, who suggested that the article had been viewed hundreds of times more than the correction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not exactly 100% sure of the actual number, but in that realm, a total disbalance and disproportionate view of people saw something that could be creating antisemitic behavior,\u201d said Kaploun. \u201cAll those people that saw it have incorrect information.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report was not “false,” it lacked context.<\/p>\n

The context, that Israel is starving to death and\/or denying medical aid to the sickly and infirm, actually makes the story worse.<\/p>\n

[Kaploun] declined to say whether he believes social networks should have removed posts that included that article.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into the specifics or the semantics of what that\u2019s going to look like. We are going to work collectively and together with these companies and try and come up with productive solutions that will lower the disinformation and lower the hatred,\u201d Kaploun said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019d like to work with these social media platforms to do a better job with, recognizing that and making sure that we can do a better job of getting accurate facts out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is what Kaploun views as “accurate facts”:<\/p>\n

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\uf6a8 Trump just appointed Yehuda Kaploun, an Israeli who says \u201cthere never was a Palestine\u201d as lead censor of free speech in America aka as the State Department\u2019s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. pic.twitter.com\/eCKZzjCrN2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ahmed Eldin | \u0627\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0627\u0644\u062f\u064a\u0646 (@ASE) April 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n