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News Twitter Acts as Israel’s Enforcer by Blocking Tweet
Twitter blocked users in the Jewish state from reading a tweet that violated Israeli law, although the Israeli government denied it had asked the site to do so. Twitter informed American blogger Richard Silverstein that a tweet he wrote violated Israeli law and would therefore be blocked for social media users in the Jewish state,…
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Breaking News Donald Trump Waves Anti-Semitic Graphic Tweeted by David Duke
Donald Trump used another graphic initially published by an anti-Semitic site last week at a rally in Sunrise, Florida. He held up a chart that purported to show the amount of money several countries in North Africa and the Middle East had paid in order to receive money from the State Department, calling it a…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman’s Twitter Hacked by Anonymous After Calling ‘Bernie-or-Bust’ Movement ‘Ridiculous’
Sarah Silverman’s Twitter account was hacked by the international hacktivist group, Anonymous, after the comedian called the “Bernie-or-Bust” supporters “ridiculous” at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Less than 48 hours after Silverman had the blogosphere buzzing when she criticized Bernie Sanders supporters who refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton, a mysterious — now deleted…
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Life These 4 Jewish Comedians Are Backing #NoBillNoBreak Anti-Gun Push
As more than half of the Jewish members of the House participated in a sit-in protest of the Senate’s failure to pass gun control measures, celebrities took to social media to voice support for the cause. Amy Schumer urged her followers to support the sit-in, which was trending on Twitter under the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak. In…
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Community The Origins of Anti-Semitic Anime Inspired by Donald Trump
Late last week, Forward writer Jay Michaelson discovered an unlikely connection between three seemingly unrelated topics: anime, Donald Trump and anti-Semitism. In what appears to be the most bizarre twist to come out of the 2016 election, after penning a criticism of Trump, Michaelson found himself bombarded with pictures of the popular anime character Asuka…
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Breaking News New York Times Editor Quits Twitter — With Final Tweet Blasting ‘Fakery’ and Hate
Jon Weisman, the deputy Washington editor at The New York Times, announced that he would be leaving Twitter on Wednesday due to continued anti-Semitic harassment. On June 8, Weisman wrote two tweets that said he would be leaving Twitter. He said he would stick to Facebook, “where at least people need to use their real…
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News This App Lets You Turn the Tables on the Jew-Haters on Twitter
The neo-Nazis who were using three parentheses to target Jewish people online are now easily identifiable themselves due to the work of one anonymous web developer. A new site called Echo Location displays a live stream of anyone posting on Twitter with the echo symbol and allows users to search for specific tweets with three…
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News Application That Identifies (((Jews))) Online Disappears From Google Browser, App Store
The developer of the Google Chrome extension Coincidence Detector, which identifies Jewish individuals and organizations by putting triple parentheses around their names, pulled the application last night after several news reports exposed it to the general public. A Forward reporter was exploring the extension on her laptop in order to better write about it at…
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