A new initiative aims to identify employees who support terrorism and incite violence against Israel online.
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The creator of the Terror Supporting Detector told Israel Hayom that since the war with Hamas broke out two weeks ago, he noticed an increase in posts on the LinkedIn employment-focused platform in which employees openly express support for the terror group.
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"I saw a LinkedIn post with a list of companies that support Israel and asked the author whether the opposite – a list of companies that support Hamas and violence against Israel – also existed. When he told me no, I knew it wouldn't take me long to create such a list myself," he said.
"After a few hours of browsing the web, I was able to find many posts of terrorist supporters whose employers could also be located. From there, the road was short and I was able to sort companies according to their levels of 'contamination,' i.e. the amount of terrorist-supporting employees they have."
Among the companies leading the list are Amazon, Deloitte, SAP, EY, PwC, and others.
"We know these companies have begun to take measures, such as reprimands and taking down posts by these employees. At the moment, we don't know about layoffs for sure, but I am sure that is also happening," he said.
He noted that many companies have policies against employees expressing political opinions in a business context, such as on LinkedIn. "Our project works to find these violations and report to the companies at the same time," and allows for other users to report as well, he said.
Although only four days old, the Terror Supporting Detector already has 14 experts from various fields and a waitlist of 20 professionals waiting to join, on a completely voluntary basis.
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