In two scathing Guardian articles, this week and last, Carole Cadwalladr outlines how right wing extremists have gamed the Google algorithm in order to present Holocaust denial and vitriolic anti-Semitism as “authoritative” internet responses to “Did the Holocaust happen?” and “Are Jews evil?” In her December 11 “Google is not just a platform” she tells…
While news media and social networks puzzle over how to combat fake news, internet activist Daniel Sieradski has developed his own scheme to fight the harmful phenomenon — a plug-in that alerts users of untrustworthy sites. Sieradski’s add-on to internet browsers, called “BS Detector,” flags content from websites that are recognized for propagating conspiracy theories,…
The ‘alt-right’ has used the Internet as one of its primary weapons to harass, troll and chat over the course of the election season. Now, there’s an Internet tool to fight back against the motley crew of white nationalists — a plug-in to the Web browser Google Chrome that turns the word “alt-right” into “white…
The alt-right has become an internet phenomenon. As a white supremacist movement, it seems to have a fairly large following among millennials. Yet the internet — the cradle of 21st century white supremacy — has also become a staging ground for a schism within the alt-right: to become mainstream or stay staunchly bigoted against all…
In the United States, “don’t read the comments” is such a common refrain that it’s become shorthand for a generation’s anxiety over abusive internet behavior. In Israel, the comments sections below news article are no less abusive, but people do read them, which is why they play a prominent role in Israeli public discourse. Israelis…
An internet tool singles out extreme right-wingers online — and Donald Trump — by putting swastikas around their names, mirroring an earlier application that neo-Nazis used to identify Jews online. The Nazi Detector, a Google Chrome extension, identifies not only white supremacist social media users, famous Nazis and anti-Semitic groups, including Adolf Hitler, David Duke…
Google removed from its app store a mobile game that simulates Israeli attacks on Gaza. “Bomb Gaza,” which invites users to “drop bombs and avoid killing civilians,” was removed Monday from the Google Play after a public backlash, the Guardian newspaper reported. In the game, developed by PlayFTW, players drop bombs from a fighter jet…
Getty Images (Reuters) — Israelis have found a new way to learn of imminent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip in the form of a mobile phone app. Hamas militants have fired more than 1,000 rockets from Gaza at Israeli cities in the past week. Typically, air raid sirens blare and residents have between 15 and…
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