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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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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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