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Culture Seeing ‘Hashem’ or ‘Yiddish’ trending on Twitter? It’s because the platform knows you’re Jewish.
The trending bar on the social media platform has been serving up a lot of haimish terms. But no one is actually talking about them.
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Fast Forward Meta refuses to block Facebook page that Israeli court says incites terror
In a rare turn, the U.S. company that controls Facebook refused to cooperate with Israeli authorities on blocking inciting content, amid the spring's terror wave
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Culture Conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds are still going strong on Twitter
After David Rothschild —no relation to the banking family — clapped back at an Elon Musk tweet, things quickly devolved into antisemitic conspiracies.
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News ‘They don’t care’: Why it’s so hard to take antisemitic websites off the internet
The site the Buffalo gunman credited with teaching him about white supremacy is resistant to regulation, as are similar ‘alt-tech’ platforms
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News What Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could mean for Jewish users — and antisemitism — on the platform
Some are wary that his emphasis on unfettered free speech could allow antisemitism to proliferate unchecked.
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News Mistaken for a right-wing media star, she met a cyberbullying mob
The ‘other’ Chaya Raichik had never heard of Libs of TikTok before this week. She wants to be left alone.
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Culture On TikTok, she offers a spicy daily take on Talmud
A non-Orthodox woman with bleach-blonde hair, Anzovin might not look like what most people conjure when asked to think of someone who studies Talmud
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Culture How one far-right platform has weaponized antisemitism and Christian extremism to foment insurrection
In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Twitter deplatformed Trump for inciting violence and cracked down on other users. Amazon kicked conservative social media site Parler off of its servers for failing to police extremist conversation. And in the wake of the insurrection, membership of Gab, which has long been a home for far-right…
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Fast Forward In a Mamdani-era primary, J Street endorses pro-Israel incumbent — and, in a first, ‘approves’ his challenger
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