Tag: Facebook

During a protest in Gaza against Facebook’s removal of Palestinian accounts and pages, organized by the Journalist Support Committee, Tawfiq Al-Sayyid Salim, Head of the Palestinian Media Assembly, said that the “targeting of Palestinian...

The New Year begins with news that Facebook has at long last removed the notorious "Jewish Ritual Murder" page from its site. There is nothing to welcome or applaud in this scandalously late decision. The...

The first ever Kosher restaurant opened at Facebook's sprawling 430,000 square foot campus in Menlo Park, California. The restaurant is called Kosher Truck and serves a mixture of Middle Eastern food. It is the 12th...

Rutgers University is disciplining Dr. Michael Chikindas, the Rutgers professor of food science who posted anti-Semitic cartoons to his Facebook page. In a letter sent today to Rutgers faculty members, University President Robert Barchi and Chancellor Deba...

ProPublica reported Thursday that it was able to use Facebook’s advertising platform to target users who had expressed interest in topics such as “Jew hater” and “German Schutzstaffel,” also known as the Nazi SS. And when ProPublica’s reporters...

The Facebook page Jewish Ritual Murder is what you’d expect from a group with that name: posts and posts about antisemitic blood libels. It has apparently been reported for years and..nada. Well, perhaps that is not entirely true. You see,...

Squash Competition From Startups -- by Betsy Morris and Deepa Seetharaman: "Tech startups live by the rule that speed is paramount. Houseparty, creator of a hot video app, has an extra reason for urgency....

On Thursday, a federal judge in New York dismissed two lawsuits that sought to hold Facebook liable for allegedly providing a platform for terrorists. The case was brought by two groups of plaintiffs, one a group of 20,000...