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News Lenny Dykstra tweets as if he’s Jewish. Is it really him behind his words?
Dykstra's Orthodox Jewish ghostwriter says he didn't write derisive tweet about Conservative synagogue
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Fast Forward Trump supporters denounce FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago: ‘This is Gestapo crap!’
On Twitter and on TV, right-wingers compare the raid to Nazism
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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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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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Opinion Elon Musk’s vision for Twitter endangers Jews and other minorities
Social media sites with no limits on free expression have emboldened mass shooters and those who exploit minors to take their hate offline
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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 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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