Social media executives gave testimony on Friday to Congress on their platforms’ work to combat online antisemitism.

They appeared in front of the first hearing of the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Anti-Semitism, which contains members from multiple countries including the United States, Canada and Israel.

"The repetition of lies and propaganda and the amplification of hate speech to justify or even enable political violence is an old strategy now operating in a massive scale through the power of social media and digital platforms," chair of the Task Force, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), said, according to UPI.

"Combating the evil forces of antisemitism and extremism online is the first step in preventing antisemitic ideologically motivated and hateful violence on the streets."... Read More: Arutz-7