GitHub, a software developing host owned by Microsoft, reportedly fired a Jewish employee days after he warned of “Nazis” among the mob that stormed the Capitol last week. According to Business Insider, the Jewish employee posted on Jan. 6 on a company channel on Slack, the work messaging platform, that colleagues in the Washington, D.C. area…
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How Russian trolls stoke online antisemitism in times of crisis
Soon after the 2017 far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a Twitter user going by the name “jojoh888” knew who was to blame for the clashes…
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Facebook banned Holocaust denial — but it's still easy to find
As of Wednesday afternoon, one of the first results in a Facebook search for “Holohoax” — a term popular with Holocaust deniers — was a post decrying…
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Israel wants to harness the tech prowess of Russian Jews
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Two weeks after Twitter bans Holocaust denial, CEO says it’s still allowed
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35 years on, what does U.S.-Israel free trade mean to California?
This piece first appeared in Alert and is reprinted with permission. Today is the 35th anniversary of the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement, the first free…
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TikTok becomes latest social network to crack down on antisemitism
Following the lead of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, the video platform TikTok announced that it is expanding the range of hate content that it will ban…
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Following Facebook, Twitter will now ban Holocaust denial
Twitter will now ban posts that deny the Holocaust. Bloomberg News reported Oct. 14 that a Twitter spokesperson said posts that “deny or distort” violent…
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Facebook will now ban Holocaust denial, in a major shift
Facebook announced that it will now ban any posts that deny or distort the Holocaust, a landmark change from its previous policy. For years, Facebook and…