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Fast Forward Brits Grill Google For Allowing David Duke Videos
Google’s decision to keep anti-Semitic David Duke videos on YouTube is irking lawmakers across the pond. Britain’s Commons Home Affairs committee summoned Tuesday executives from Google, Twitter and Facebook for a hearing in which the social media giants were slammed for their failure to block hate speech and anti-Semitic content from their platforms. Chairwoman Yvette…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist David Duke’s Twitter Suspension Was Just A Mistake
Former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke was booted from Twitter yesterday — and then reinstated a few hours later. What was behind the episode? There was much speculation online — from his fans and critics. It turns out it was all an accident. An agent mistakenly marked the account for suspension during a routine…
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Fast Forward David Duke Allowed Back On Twitter After Brief Suspension
David Duke’s banning from Twitter turned out to be nothing more than an hours-long timeout, as the white supremacist’s social media profile was once again operational a few short hours after the platform suspended his account. I’m back. Though I have no idea why I was suspended. Thank you to all of the wonderful people…
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News Why Was David Duke’s Twitter Suspended — And How Did He Get It Back?
Update: This article has been updated to include a comment from Twitter. On Monday morning, one of the country’s most prominent white supremacists was kicked off Twitter. David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan head and outspoken admirer of President Trump, was stripped off his account, separated from his tens of thousands of followers. His critics…
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The Schmooze Chris Evans Brilliantly Claps Back At David Duke’s Anti-Semitic Tweet
Chris Evans has been taking white supremacist David Duke down, one eloquent tweet at a time. The “Captain America” star first butted heads with Duke last week, after the Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Duke tweeted out his approval of the confirmation, saying: “Mr. Trump’s appointment of Bannon, Flynn and Sessions are the…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller Is David Duke’s Favorite Jew
As a former KKK Grand Wizard and current espouser of every anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in the book, David Duke hates Jews. ExceptStephen Miller, President Trump’s national policy director, that is. I can’t help it, I like this guy – I think he’s genuinely #AmericaFirst. https://t.co/9vm0iwGEyz — David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) February 13, 2017 Miller, who represented…
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Opinion This Week in Anti-Semitism: Stanford Printers Hacked and British Jews Attacked
The Forward plans to regularly monitor on the surge of anti-Semitism in many parts of the country and the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. 1) Stanford’s Printers Hacked to Print…
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Fast Forward Former KKK Head: Trump’s Speech is ‘War’ on Jews
Former head of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke has long seen in Donald Trump a champion of his own anti-Semitic white nationalist agenda. And during the 45th president’s inauguration today, Duke celebrated what he perceived as Trump declaring “war” on a perceived Jewish agenda. Duke, who commented on the speech on Twitter, used the…
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