Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
While In real life we carefully avoid rebuking others, with the advent of social media and its artificial nature, often vitriolic criticism has become an almost daily challenge. Criticism can serve as a tool for improvement, but online, it often makes the situation worse and becomes a destructive force that wrecks individuals, families, communities and…
(JTA) — The Landlords Union, an organization in the United Kingdom, is under fire for using a photo of Auschwitz to illustrate a news release about new government policies against rogue landlords. The image reportedly first appeared on the news release on the union’s property118.com website two weeks ago, the British tabloid Metro reported, but…
It’s only the fourth day of 2018, but facts are facts: Ruth Westheimer’s Twitter is the best thing on the internet this year. Westheimer’s feed is a strong combination of sex advice, thoughts on self-driving cars and withering takedowns of Barbra Streisand’s visit to the Holocaust museum. If you don’t have a little bit of…
Singer Lorde has come under fire from from BDS supporters on Twitter after announcing tour dates this coming summer in Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The 21 year-old “Royals” singer is promoting her 2017 sophomore album “Melodrama,” which received a nomination for album of the year at the most recent Grammy Awards and general…
Twitter accounts associated with the far-right Jewish Defense League were swept up in a larger purging of white nationalists accounts as the social media site implemented new rules targeted “violent extremist” groups. The Twitter accounts @JDLCanada, @jdldotorg, @JewishDefenceNY were all booted offline sometime on Monday, December 19. Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18,…
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik is well known in Jewish circles. But the scion of the great Soloveichik Orthodox rabbinical lineage who is currently the rabbi of New York’s Congregation Shearith Israel, America’s oldest synagogue, will now be exposed to a much larger audience. In fact, more than 44 million people around the world will get a…
The comedian and radio host Sam Seder was fired from MSNBC Tuesday evening after a prominent far right figure posted an old tweet from Seder containing a rape joke, the Wrap reported. Mike Cernovich, who has been called the “meme mastermind of the alt-right,” posted a tweet Seder published in 2009. The tweet was a…
Richard Spencer, the white nationalist, said he may leave Twitter after losing his verification badge Wednesday. In two tweets posted Thursday evening, Spencer announced the potential move and bemoaned what he called an attack on free speech. “Twitter had the chance to become a true global public square, the preeminent free-speech platform of the digital…
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