Tag: Social Media
British court sentences Holocaust denier to prison time for ‘baiting Jews’
A woman in Britain said to be a virulent anti-Semite has been found guilty of spreading offensive messages and material over the Internet and was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison by a magistrate...
Brazilian Jewish group to launch criminal investigation against party leader
A Jewish organization in Brazil said it will launch a criminal investigation against the head of a major Brazilian political party after he promoted an anti-Semitic blood libel on social media.
“Baal, Satanic deity, Canaanites...
Study: ‘Big Five’ social-media platforms earn ‘B-’ in tackling hate online
An “explosion of hate and lurid conspiracies” proliferating across various social-media platforms has been observed this year, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Tuesday in announcing the release of its annual digital terrorism and...
Knesset presses social-media companies to combat online anti-Semitism
Representatives from top social medial companies participated in a special Knesset hearing on Wednesday to address the growing problem of online anti-Semitic hate speech.
The hearing, in which representatives from Twitter, Facebook, Google and TikTok...
February 4, 2004: Facebook shows its face
Facebook was launched from a Harvard dormitory room by Mark Zuckerberg, then 19 years old, and three classmates on this date in 2004. By summer they had an investor, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of...
California lawyer under fire after calling for genocide of Jews on social media
A California lawyer has come under fire from Jewish groups for making genocidal claims against Jews on social media.
In past Twitter posts, the lawyer, Farhad Khorasani, claimed that Israel is “the main enemy of...
Jewish civil-rights group protests Twitter CEO over not banning Holocaust denial
The grassroots Jewish civil-rights movement End Jew Hatred protested outside the California home of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday, blaring audio recordings of Holocaust-denying tweets that have not been removed from Twitter.
The group said Dorsey...
Deciphering and dealing with anti-Jewish hate in America
As the repercussions of the deadly Jan. 6 mob invasion of the U.S. Capitol continue to reverberate across the country and beyond, like most Americans, many in the Jewish community looked on with shock...
Following Trump ban, Iranian dissident calls on Twitter to ban Khamenei
Following Twitter banning U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform, an Iranian dissident journalist has called on the social-media company to do the same to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In a statement to The...
JNS ‘top 40’ global advocates for Israel online assemble for Knesset panel
More than 30 influential pro-Israel advocates participated in a special Knesset panel to address the diplomatic challenges Israel faces amid a growing wave of global anti-Semitism and anti-Israel media bias.
The panel was the result...