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BERLIN (JTA) — The Berlin-based creator of the viral Yolocaust website spray-painted the German headquarters of Twitter with anti-Semitic posts that the social network failed to delete when he reported them.

Shahak Shapira, a 28-year-old Israeli-German, released his own tweet on Monday claiming responsibility after first working anonymously.

“I reported about 300 hate tweets. Twitter didn’t delete  ’em, so I sprayed them in front of their office,” he wrote.

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His tweet has been retweeted more than 7 million times.

Shapira used water soluble spray-paint on the Hamburg building.

The tweets included “Let’s get together and gas Jews again … the old days were nice.” And “Here comes another horde of migrants. Did they miss the stop at Auschwitz?”

“If Twitter is going to force me to see these things, then they also have to face it,” he said. According to Bento, Twitter has not responded to the artistic intervention.

In June, Germany’s parliament passed a law — applauded by local Jewish leaders — designed to curb hate speech and libel on social networks. It requires internet platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to remove material with obviously illegal content and fake defamatory “news” within 24 hours of its having been reported. Failure to do so can lead to heavy fines, reportedly of up to 50 million euros, or about $56 million.

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