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News The ADL called for advertisers to boycott Twitter. Now it’s advertising on Twitter.
The civil rights group called for advertisers to 'pause' spending last fall over concerns that the platform was failing to address hateful content, but says the boycott was always meant to be temporary
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Culture On Twitter, Nazis have free speech — but Elon Musk’s critics face censorship
Twitter's parent company has threatened a defamation suit against a nonprofit researching the rise of hate speech on the platform
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BINTEL BRIEF An online friend didn’t realize their remark was antisemitic — but didn’t apologize. Am I wrong to want more?
Understanding has to cut both ways, but it's hard to figure out what that looks like
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Culture There was a mass exodus to Threads. Is Jewish Twitter staying behind?
For all its flaws, Twitter still seems superior to its rivals when it comes to building community
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Culture Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads app be a decentralized utopia or just another antisemitic hell?
The Twitter competitor app is part of the fediverse, a decentralized type of social media that is becoming popuar
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg’s Star Wars bar mitzvah, Yom Kippur apology and other Jewish things about the Meta CEO
With his new app Threads, the tech titan is in the news again. Here a few things to know about his background and what he’s said about being Jewish
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Fast Forward He racked up millions of likes for being a proud gay Haredi. Then he was outed as a fake.
‘I'm extremely upset that he is falsely portraying an experience without the nuance of living it,’ one person commented
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Culture Reddit is destroying users’ ability to moderate hate speech — so protesters shut the site down
A subreddit blackout is in progress, protesting site changes that could open the door to antisemitism and other forms of hate
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Opinion The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump’s ruthless grab for power
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Opinion I first met Netanyahu in 1988. Here’s how he became the most destructive leader in Israel’s history.
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Opinion Gaza and Trump have left the Jewish community at war with itself — and me with a bad case of alienation
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Fast Forward Trump administration restores student visas, but impact on pro-Palestinian protesters is unclear
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Fast Forward Deborah Lipstadt says Trump’s campus antisemitism crackdown has ‘gone way too far’
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Fast Forward 5 Jewish senators accuse Trump of using antisemitism as ‘guise’ to attack universities
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