Twitter re-platformed extremists — and it’s paying off in ad money
Turns out that extremism draws clicks, and clicks mean ad dollars
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Culture Can we all please shut up about Kanye West now?
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Fast Forward Blake Masters, Republican who once cited a Nazi official, among far-right candidates to prevail in Arizona primaries
Master prevailed with the support of former President Donald Trump and tech financier Peter Thiel
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Culture How one far-right platform has weaponized antisemitism and Christian extremism to foment insurrection
In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Twitter deplatformed Trump for inciting violence and cracked down on other users. Amazon kicked conservative social media site Parler off of its servers for failing to police extremist conversation. And in the wake of the insurrection, membership of Gab, which has long been a home for far-right…
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Culture Here’s one big reason why online antisemitism and extremism are so hard to stop
TikTok is no stranger to antisemitic trends, from teens pretending to be Holocaust victims arriving at the gates of heaven to videos of face-distorting filters set to “Hava Nagila.” Some comments on posts by or about Jews make light of the Holocaust or say that Hitler “missed one.” But antisemitism is only one form of…
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