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Fast Forward Twitter CEO Defends Getting Advice From Activist Accused Of Anti-Semitism
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended getting advice from a conservative activist accused of anti-Semitism and called his perspective “interesting” in an interview with HuffPost. Dorsey privately reached out to Ali Akbar for his opinion on whether to follow other social media platforms and remove content made by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, The Wall Street Journal…
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The Schmooze The Internet Weighs In On Michael Cohen’s Prison Time
Michael Cohen, longtime lawyer to President Donald Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday morning. Cohen will serve time after admitting to having illegally paid women, including Stormy Daniels, to keep quiet about their relations to Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, and for lying to congress about a Trump building project…
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Fast Forward Laura Loomer Wears Yellow Star And Handcuffs Herself To Twitter HQ In Protest
Laura Loomer reportedly donned a yellow star and handcuffed herself to a Twitter office building in New York to protest what she calls its discrimination against conservative figures. “Twitter is upholding sharia when they ban me for tweeting facts about sharia law,” Loomer shouted on a livestream of her protest, referring to Islamic law. The…
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The Schmooze Twitter Sorry For Making ‘Kill All Jews’ A Trending Topic
Bright white sneakers. Glass water bottles. Kill all Jews. You know — just trends! A spokesperson for social media giant Twitter apologized for allowing the phrase “Kill all Jews” to show up on the list of trending topic in the New York area on Friday morning. The horrifying phrase was “trending” (being tweeted about at…
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Fast Forward VIRAL PHOTO: Pittsburgh Boy In Kippah Gives Cookies To Police Officer
The boy is wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates kippah and glasses, and he’s sheltering in the arm of a Pittsburgh police officer to whom he’s given a Tupperware container full of what looks like homemade cookies. There’s also a handwritten note, from Lily, 6, and Mikey, 9: “Thank you for keeping the Jews in the neighborhood…
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News Hate-Spewing Jewish GOP Donor Tweets RBG ‘Can’t Die Soon Enough’
You might think Steven Alembik would delete some of the more incendiary tweets in his feed after the Florida Republican donor caused a firestorm by using the ‘N-word’ about former President Barack Obama, enveloping the campaign of GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis in yet another racial controversy. You don’t know Steven Alembik. The in-your-face fan…
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Fast Forward Twitter Joins Other Tech Titans In Banning Alex Jones
After a brief suspension from Twitter, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been permanently banned from the social media platform, Gizmodo reported. Twitter banned both Jones’ account and that of his website Infowars, citing abusive behavior. His Twitter page had nearly 900,000 followers, and Infowars had 430,000. Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from…
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Opinion I Got Conned By An Alt-Right Troll
My super-secret CIA contact had been working me for a year, feeding me supposedly “inside information,” before I began to suspect that he might not be totally on the level. I first “met” the magical “Mister Smith” in July of 2017. I was relatively new to the extremely online lifestyle which I have now (for…
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