TEL AVIV – Ahead of Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, CyberWell, a nonprofit that partners with social media platforms to combat Holocaust denial and antisemitism online, flags that Holocaust denial, distortion and justification continues to circulate widely across social media, with an important twist – increasingly, content is now generated by artificial intelligence and surges during periods of geopolitical crisis.

“Generative AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to producing and distributing antisemitic content,” said CyberWell Founder & CEO Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor. “What once required coordination, creativity, basic technical skills and time can now be created instantly and shared at scale. While many platforms already have Holocaust denial removal guidelines and techniques, the emergence of AI-generated content has challenged existing moderation mechanisms. Meanwhile, content creators are also using emojis, the guise of humor, and coded language to avoid detection.”

Generative AI systems, such as Sora AI, Suno AI and Veo3, are capable of producing text, images, video, audio and synthetic news-style media, changing the dynamics of online antisemitism. One trend that CyberWell identified was an AI-generated, Pixar-style trailer titled “Caust,” which trivializes the Holocaust by presenting it as child-friendly entertainment, glorifying Hitler, and mocking Holocaust victims. Other AI-produced content has glorified Nazi figures through coded language, animation and parody formats designed to evade detection.

Overall, CyberWell’s monitoring has identified a growing volume of AI-generated media that trivializes the Holocaust, glorifies Nazi figures or mocks victims. The content is frequently packaged as memes, parody videos, songs or stylized animation designed to evade automated moderation systems. The material denies, distorts and mocks the Holocaust and remains a persistent component of antisemitic content online, often paired with rhetoric that demonizes Jews.

“Content moderation efforts on social media platforms need to adjust to meet the scaling use and abuse of generative AI platforms. This includes expanding integrated partnerships with organizations and technologies that have contextual and subject matter expertise,” Cohen Montemayor added. “Integrating partnerships more deeply can support scalable and effective digital policy enforcement.”

CyberWell’s monitoring also shows how quickly Holocaust-related rhetoric can spike during geopolitical crises. During the joint US/Israel war against the Islamic Republic Guard Corps regime, posts containing “Hitler was right” surged dramatically on X, according to social listening tools utilized by CyberWell. In the six months prior to the conflict, the phrase averaged 669 posts per day. However, since the start of the war, February 28th, 2026, usage jumped to a daily average of 847 posts, reflecting a 26 percent increase. The peak occurred on March 1, the first full day of the war, with 3,843 posts, marking a 474 percent increase compared to the prior daily average.

Earlier this year, CyberWell documented broader trends in Holocaust-related hate speech in its 2025 annual report on online antisemitism. The research found that Holocaust denial, distortion and mockery remain recurring themes across major social media platforms despite improvements in enforcement against explicit violations. It also noted that antisemitic actors increasingly rely on coded language, irony, and stylized digital media to evade detection.

“On Yom HaShoah, remembrance must be matched with vigilance,” Cohen Montemayor said. “As technology evolves and manipulated content becomes increasingly believable, platforms must ensure their policies and enforcement infrastructure address the ways this hatred adapts and spreads in the digital age.”

CyberWell is an independent, tech-based nonprofit combating the spread of antisemitism online, operating globally. Its AI-technologies monitor social media in English and Arabic for posts that promulgate antisemitism, Holocaust denial and promote violence against Jews and their allies based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.