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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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Culture Why is the IDF promoting its Gaza operation like a Marvel movie?
The Israeli military is trying to leverage superhero associations for its brand
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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 Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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