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News BY THE NUMBERS: The Twittersphere of the Trolls
‘Your clothes will be removed & fumigated. You will be held down and given a bath!,” a Twitter troll tweeted at a Huffington Post journalist, complete with a picture of herself in a gas chamber. What sounds like an extreme example, is only one of the many attacks on Jews and Jewish journalsits by the…
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Fast Forward Why Do Donald Trump’s Worst Tweets Come on Jewish Holidays — or Shabbat?
(JTA) — After the shooting death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin in August, Donald Trump , “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” The previous month, he posted to Twitter a six-pointed star containing the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” stamped on an image of Hillary Clinton and hundred-dollar bills. A few weeks…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Lands in Social Media Hot Water Over ‘Racist’ Tweet
A tweet Lena Dunham wrote five years ago has resurfaced—and is causing a major internet backlash. “An uncool thought to have: ‘is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he’s Asian.’” the actress wrote on July 12, 2011. An uncool thought to have: “is that guy walking in the dark…
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News Jewish Buzzfeed Writer With Nazi-Hunting Father Viciously Trolled by ‘Alt Right’
Buzzfeed journalist Joseph Bernstein, whose father was a celebrated United States Justice Department Nazi hunter, is being trolled online for articles he has been writing about the white nationalist movement known as the alt-right. After a recent article about Sam Hyde, a comedian with ties to the alt-right and a show on Comedy Central’s Adult…
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News Why Is Donald Trump’s Doctor Talking About Hillary Clinton’s Health — or Tweeting in Italian?
Just when you thought Election 2016 couldn’t get weirder, Donald Trump’s Jewish doctor, who reassures us the nominee will be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” has a thing for Italian so intense, he delivered a speech in the language – at his son’s bar mitzvah. And at least according to one account,…
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News This Rabbi is Striking Back at Pedophiles — Using Twitter
Meet the rabbi who’s on a mission to educate the Orthodox community about sexual abuse—and publicly out pedophiles while he’s at it. For the past 15 years, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz has been trying to break the cycle of silence associated with abuse in the Orthodox community. According to the Torah, Jews are forbidden to turn…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Launches Hebrew Twitter Feed — but Why?
(JTA) — The Trump campaign has launched a Hebrew-language Twitter feed, aiming to boost support for the GOP presidential nominee in Israel and raising an interesting question: Just how many potential U.S. voters in Israel don’t speak English? The feed, launched Monday night, is named “Campaign Trump b’Yisrael,” and uses the generic handle @USAISRAEL2016, though…
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News Twitter Acts as Israel’s Enforcer by Blocking Tweet
Twitter blocked users in the Jewish state from reading a tweet that violated Israeli law, although the Israeli government denied it had asked the site to do so. Twitter informed American blogger Richard Silverstein that a tweet he wrote violated Israeli law and would therefore be blocked for social media users in the Jewish state,…
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