The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Facebook page was inundated with hundreds of explicitly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages. The attacks earlier this month were confirmed by the Jewish Agency on Thursday. The messages were deleted soon after they were discovered, according to the Jewish Agency. The attack of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages coincided with the anniversary…
Photographs uploaded by an Israeli Facebook user on Friday caused a furor, as users responded to the photo album, which included a caption connoting African migrants as “animals.” The photographs, which featured African migrants in south Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Park, were uploaded by the woman to an album entitled, “Night tour in the south Tel…
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg admits to being disappointed about his company’s crumbling share price, but argued that Wall Street did not yet grasp the full long-term potential of its slow-growing mobile business. The 28-year-old co-founder looked confident in his first public appearance since the company’s rocky initial public offering in May, followed by…
The tragic ordeal of Ayala Pamela Weisfeld – the 40-year-old immigrant mother of two from New Jersey who died this week in Jerusalem following a public five-week bout with cancer – unfolded on a Facebook page in real time and in riveting detail, with twists and turns that veered from hope to nail-biting angst to…
Israelis are nothing if not practical. So maybe it’s no surprise that an Israeli startup’s behind a new app that sends private messages to one’s dearly beloved after death — or that the Facebook app’s creators are offering a chance at worldwide fame to the (un)lucky participant who dies first. According to social media digest…
Facebook, citing a policy against hosting content that “incites hate,” has removed some Hezbollah-related content. Although some Facebook pages in praise of Hezbollah could be accessed on Friday, a page on its radio statio, Al-Manar, displayed only text about the station and no commentary or reports. “To help keep our site safe, we use the…
Israel’s Foreign Ministry updated online social media guidelines for representatives of the State of Israel worldwide, following a few recent unusual tweets and Facebook posts made by Israeli diplomats. The Foreign Ministry’s message to Israeli diplomats: Surfers on the web take everything you post as Israel’s official position. Earlier this week, Yoram Murad, head of…
A campaign to drive designated terror organizations off social media platforms is proving effective on some fronts in preventing Hezbollah from reaching out to members and supporters through the Web. Several key social media sites, including Facebook, agreed recently to delete accounts and applications belonging to the Lebanon-based group and its TV station, Al-Manar, which…
די העלדן אין דער זאַמלונג זענען אוקראַיִנער ייִדן וואָס לײַדן פֿון אַ שווער לעבן אָבער בלײַבן פֿאָרט לײַטיש.
100% of profits support our journalism
