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Fast Forward Why were ads for Netflix’s online store appearing on Holocaust denial videos?
Despite video platform Rumble's rules against antisemitism, videos denying the Holocaust have appeared there
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News Chabad women come together once a year in person. The rest of the time, there’s Instagram.
Instagram is playing an increasingly significant and versatile role in the lives of Chabad’s women emissaries
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Culture Twitter re-platformed extremists — and it’s paying off in ad money
Turns out that extremism draws clicks, and clicks mean ad dollars
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Fast Forward European Jewish student group sues Twitter over its handling of antisemitism and Holocaust denial
The student group aims to leverage Germany’s laws against Holocaust denial to force Twitter to enforce its own policies
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Fast Forward Notorious bigot Nick Fuentes suspended from Twitter a day after being reinstated
Fuentes became more prominent after befriending Kanye West and dining with Donald Trump
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Culture An indecent exposure online exposes controversy in the Orthodox world
When an Orthodox woman's Instagram event was crashed by a naked man, some people blamed her
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News An academic is breaking down antisemitic dog whistles on TikTok
Numbers and symbols that seem meaningless can be used to spread hatred online
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Fast Forward Judaism’s largest US denomination pens open letter to Elon Musk over rise in Twitter hate speech
The Union for Reform Judaism expressed concern Musk may have his own white supremacist sympathies
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Yiddish אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִוואָ קומט פֿאָר אין איר געבוירן־שטאָט — ווילנעA conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilnius
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