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21 items from the longer passes: the AI fault line, the World Cup, and religion.

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Statements. Nothing to check, so these carry a severity instead.

Calls for violenceProtected groups
What was said

The Islamic State's spokesman told followers to keep attacking Jewish and Christian targets, and pointed at the dead as proof it works.

Who it targets

Jewish people and Christians

Calls for violenceProtected groups
What was said

He filmed himself on a New York street leading a chant about a massacre of Jews.

Who it targets

Jewish people

Calls for violenceProtected groups
What was said

A streamer with a million followers told them to identify every American Jew and plan to arrest them.

Who it targets

American Jews

ThreateningProtected groups
What was said

A single post recast every Muslim on earth as under orders to kill Jews and Christians.

Who it targets

Muslims as a whole

ThreateningProtected groups
What was said

In front of a crowd estimated at 60,000, he said he would stop Islam and that it was time for many Muslims to leave.

Who it targets

Muslims in Britain

ThreateningProtected groups
What was said

A riot with about two dozen arrests became an argument for deporting four generations of Dutch citizens.

Who it targets

Dutch citizens of Moroccan descent, including people born and raised in the Netherlands

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

For an audience of six million, she said today's Jews are impostors wearing the religion as a costume.

Who it targets

Jewish people

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

The claim that Sharia is taking over America moved through Congress, two state houses, two attorneys general, and a primary ballot in five months.

Who it targets

Muslims in the United States

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

An Islamic group announced 300 outreach booths at the tournament. One site called it the opening move of a conquest.

Who it targets

Muslims as a whole

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

A state government mailed every California voter a pamphlet describing non-Jews as livestock to be enslaved.

Who it targets

Jewish people

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

A sitting lieutenant governor said he hates Islam and called on others to hate it too.

Who it targets

Muslims in Indiana and beyond

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

A sitting party leader answered a photo of players praying with an obscenity about God.

Who it targets

Muslims, by way of the Moroccan squad’s prayer

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

Scandinavian fans looked well behaved on television, and that became a claim about who else the country lets in.

Who it targets

Immigrants generally, set against the Norwegians and Swedes held up as the good kind

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

A referee decision against Egypt turned into a claim that Jews run FIFA.

Who it targets

Jewish people, through “Zionists” standing in for them

HatefulProtected groups
What was said

A joke about the 2030 World Cup put Israeli soldiers on the pitch shooting people in the face.

Who it targets

Jewish people and Israelis, through Israel and the IDF used interchangeably

StigmatizingProtected groups
What was said

The American squad was announced, and one post treated the 26 names as a choice between two racial stereotypes.

Who it targets

Black and Hispanic players on the roster, and by extension Black and Hispanic Americans

StigmatizingProtected groups
What was said

A podcast covered a birthright citizenship ruling as a win for what it called the Third World.

Who it targets

Immigrants and their American-born children

StigmatizingProtected groups
What was said

A 2014 column arguing that soccer viewership proves the wrong people were let in got republished mid-tournament.

Who it targets

Immigrants and their American-born descendants

Claims we tested, and the roundups that collect them.

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Religion What we found

Thirty-nine of the 59 confirmed items target Jewish people. Every script that reached the top severity tier targets Muslims.

The catch

The heaviest cluster of the half-year isn't a set of posts. It's a hearing, a bill, a ballot measure, and a signed law.

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The AI Fault Line What we found

Fifty-one checks across thirteen arguments about AI, each one tested twice.

The catch

The same words hold up or fall apart depending on how far you push them, and the arguing happens in that gap.

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The World Cup What we found

Nine of the 33 accounts and posts we followed through the tournament crossed into hate.

The catch

All five underlying stories were in circulation before a ball was kicked.

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How far it goes

When it was said