BERLIN (JTA) – Joining a growing chorus of critical voices, Holocaust survivors have launched an international online campaign criticizing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that is aimed at countering Holocaust denial on his social media platform. Starting Wednesday, a campaign sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany called “There’s No Denying It #NoDenyingIt”…
Neo-Nazi rockers with swastika tattoos and Insane Clown Posse-like makeup. Album art showing the gates of Auschwitz. Songs longing for a “pure f—ing genocide.” For years, Facebook has allowed bands centered on this content a home on their platform — but now the social media giant is racing to remove them. An investigation by Al…
(JTA) — Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t changed his tune about Facebook’s stance on the spread of hate on the social media platform. That’s what the heads of several civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, said following a meeting Tuesday with Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives to discuss the demands of the advertisers that joined the…
Jewish organizations like the Jewish Federations of North America, HIAS and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are joining more than 300 companies in a boycott of Facebook advertising. The campaign’s leaders, which include the Anti-Defamation League, describe the boycott as a response to the persistence of hateful content on the platform, including Holocaust denial,…
(JTA) — It was when Mark Zuckerberg said he would allow Holocaust denial on his platform that the Anti-Defamation League realized its partnership with Facebook wasn’t working. The social media giant and the Jewish civil rights group had been working together for years to curb hate speech online. In October 2017, Facebook headlined a new…
(JTA) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience at a tech conference that he has “become more religious” in recent years. Zuckerberg was interviewed Friday evening at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit. “The last few years have been really humbling for me,” Zuckerberg said. “I’ve become more religious.” He attributed his religious evolution…
Updated January 21 Public officials and Jewish community members in New Jersey were hearkened after learning that a Facebook page accused of fomenting anti-Semitism among residents of a town with a large Orthodox Jewish population had been suspended by the social media network. But it turned out that page administrators had temporarily taken it down…
Far-right activist Laura Loomer will not be allowed to return to Facebook while running for Congress, according to CNN. “People who have been banned from our services aren’t able to set up a new account even if they’re running for office,” a spokesperson told the network’s Oliver Darcy. Loomer is banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,…
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