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Culture Is the TikTok ban about China — or is it really about Gaza?
Congressional advocacy for a ban has referenced Chinese data-mining, but also the anti-Israel content on the platform
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Fast Forward The era of fact-checking is over, Meta says, even if it leads to more disinformation
The social media company, in a possible attempt to placate Donald Trump, is changing its moderation practices
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Culture Everyone threatened to leave X because of the Nazis. Why didn’t they?
Bluesky is growing, but people aren't ready to leave the site formerly known as Twitter
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Fast Forward Ford Motor Company apologizes after X account posts ‘Israel is a terrorist state’
The account posted two other pro-Palestinian messages that were quickly deleted
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Culture Is RFK about to ban goyslop — and what on earth is that?
Online, an antisemitic term for low-quality food has gone mainstream in the wake of RFK's war on Big Food
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Fast Forward Streaming platform Twitch bans the word ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for spreading hate toward Jews and Israelis
The move comes following mounting complaints of antisemitism on the platform favored by video gamers
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Fast Forward The deadly pager operation in Lebanon is no laughing matter. Or is it?
Memes celebrating the deaths of Hezbollah operatives spark a Jewish debate on social media
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Culture What’s your candidate’s position on Israel? Depends what demographic you’re in
Targeted political ads enable campaigns to present one idea to one group, and a different one to another
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