The Forward is getting slammed on social media for posting a story about Ivanka Trump’s kugel. On the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation NYC, a poster referred to the article as a “steaming pile of you know what.” “Honestly, shame on the Forward,” one commenter wrote. “It’s offensive in principle,” another wrote. Readers argued that the…
A candidate for president of the U.K.’s largest Jewish student organization is the target of social media harassment for his pro-Palestinian activism, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. Facebook users have called Eran Cohen, a leading candidate to run the Union of Jewish Students, a “disgusting Kapo” and a “self-hating Jew,” according to the paper. Cohen,…
I took a quick scroll through Facebook yesterday, as one does. My Facebook feed has gotten notably darker these days, what with the encroaching sense of imminent doom, and I’ve adjusted my gauge for what registers as “shocking” accordingly. One post, however, managed to make me take pause. It was a screenshot of a CNN…
German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives for failing to react to the onslaught of hate speech on their platform as well as for not deleting posts denying the Holocaust. European countries like Germany have much stricter laws against hate speech than the United States. German law requires Facebook Germany to delete…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have built Facebook into the world’s largest social media site. Some think the two have also created the world’s largest news media site – and not everyone is happy about that. The average Facebook user has too many friends and follows too many pages for the site to display all…
Democrats might have found their white knight — a Jewish billionaire who came out of nowhere to write eight-figure checks for their candidates and causes. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has forked over $35 million to Hillary Clinton and allies. But party officials fear he might dump them once the threat of Donald Trump is off…
Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook chief operating officer and women’s empowerment advocate, could be leaning in too far for some in the Democratic Party’s liberal base, according to a report in Politico. Rumored to be a top pick for Treasury Secretary in a potential Clinton administration, she is turning heads among many lefties who see her…
After a Boulder, Colorado high school student took his own life, police found a neo-Nazi chat group that involved him and more than a dozen other students. “You can hang Jews on trees, shoot them right in the knees. Gas as many as you please,” wrote one commenter on the Facebook conversation, titled “4th Reich…
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