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Fast Forward Meta is failing to catch memes and innuendo promoting Holocaust denial, oversight panel concludes
An Instagram post using a SpongeBob SquarePants meme to promote Holocaust denial stayed up despite six complaints from users that generated four automated reviews and two human assessments
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Opinion Is Musk’s visit to Auschwitz the kind of Holocaust remembrance we really want?
Musk made a highly publicized visit to the concentration camp with his son and right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro
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Culture ‘Pretty girls support Palestine’ and ‘Zionism is sexy’ — is sex appeal key to online war discourse?
Can being hot online really contribute to #freepalestine or #releasethehostages?
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Fast Forward Meta inappropriately removed content related to Israel-Hamas war, oversight board concludes
Automated moderation tools removed posts that should have been allowed, according to the ruling
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Opinion I’ve been hate-scrolling social media to get through the war — I think I finally understand why
My TikTok and Instagram algorithms are making me rethink everything I believed about my own values
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Culture Debate rages over whether a letter from an Israeli hostage to her Hamas captors is a fake. But does it matter?
Danielle Aloni's letter describing her captors' kindness is only the latest in a debate over morality in the war
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News ‘House of Lev’: A former hip hop dancer and makeup artist document their new Orthodox life online
Akiva and Chava Hart and their 6 children converted to Judaism Nov. 5, but have been creating Jewish content online for a year
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Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: How can I engage on social media without getting myself in trouble?
Before you post, take a breath, check your sources…..and take another breath
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News ‘No one’s allowed to talk to me’: At UW-Madison, trying — and failing — to talk about Israel
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Fast Forward New poll: 13% of voters who switched support from Biden cite his Gaza policy
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News A ‘quite religious’ anti-Zionist: Meet the Jewish Columbia student who wrangled the college newspaper’s opinion page
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