On Tuesday of last week at around 2 in the afternoon, Facebook took down the page for the New York chapter of the Jewish Defense League, a far-right organization that purports to protect Jews from anti-Semitism “by any means necessary” – which often includes violence. Karen Lichtbraun, a 57-year-old member of the group, had been…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook said on Wednesday it was temporarily disabling the ability of advertisers on its social network to exclude racial groups from the intended audience of ads while it studies how the feature could be used to discriminate. Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, told African-American lawmakers in a letter that the…
Randi Zuckerberg posted a scathing letter to Alaska Air on Twitter describing how a passenger on her flight harassed her and a colleague with sexually explicit ranting. The co-founder of Zuckerberg Media and sister of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed the man’s lewd comments — and how the flight attendants simply brushed it…
(Kveller via JTA) — About a year ago, I decided to be completely honest on Facebook and found out the true connective power of social networks: I told my friends that my youngest child would die from a rare genetic disease. Before revealing her illness, I used Facebook like many others. I was “on brand”…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A year after Facebook vowed to stamp out discriminatory advertising, landlords can still exclude specific races, minorities and other categories of people from seeing rental ads on the social media site. ProPublica bought dozens of rental housing ads last week and had no issue filtering out Jews, African-Americans, Spanish speakers and…
A popular Facebook group for New York moms has temporarily shut down amid an internal battle sparked by the promotion of a children’s book called “P is For Palestine.” The group “UES Mommas,” which has more than 27,000 members, usually posts about strollers and tutors. But when the author of the new book, Golbarg Bashi,…
Yesterday was Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s a day to mark the violence against the Transgender community. Unfortunately, in one Jewish Facebook group, it was marked by cruelty instead. Facebook groups have evolved over the last few years from groups of a few dozen people from your high school class to thousands of people with…
The topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is stirring controversy in unusual quarters. A Facebook group of moms on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that is known for tense exchanges (along with stroller recommendations, nanny discussions and million-dollar apartment advertisements) is teetering on the edge of dissolution with the publication of a children’s book. And according to…
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