Tag: Social Media
Jewish entities worldwide institute 48-hour freeze on Twitter over hate speech
International Jewish groups are joining in a 48-hour abstention from Twitter in solidarity with Jews in the United Kingdom after British rap star Wiley, who has hundreds of thousands of followers, went on an...
Google, Amazon, Wish remove white-supremacist items from platforms
Google, Amazon and Wish have removed neo-Nazi and white-supremacist products from their platforms following an investigation by the BBC.
Despite the prohibition of such items on those sites, the BBC found that they were available for...
UK Home Secretary blasts Twitter, Instagram, over ‘abhorrent’ anti-Semitic posts
Home Secretary of the United Kingdom Priti Patel demanded an explanation from Twitter and Instagram on Sunday regarding the length of time anti-Semitic posts by British rapper Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., aka Wiley, were allowed...
UK Labour Party member apologizes for online anti-Semitic remarks
A senior member of the British Labour Party has apologized for anti-Semitic comments online prior to his current position.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle, 33, a shadow environment minister, made the remarks before becoming a member of Parliament...
Pomona College senior-class president posts anti-Semitic statements on social media
The senior class president at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., posted anti-Semitic content on social media, comparing racism to the Holocaust and accusing Zionists of hating brown people.
In an Instagram post, Malak Afaneh, a...
ADL joins with other civil-rights groups in calling for July boycott of Facebook
The Anti-Defamation League, along with several civil-rights groups, is calling for corporations to boycott Facebook in July over its unwillingness to ban hate speech on the social-media company’s platform.
The groups, including the National Association...
Jewish groups react to more anti-Semitic tweets by Ice Cube
Rapper and film actor Ice Cube has been getting a chilly reception, including from Jewish and pro-Israel groups, for sharing on Twitter anti-Semitic images amid the backlash over the death of 46-year-old African-American George...
Tawakkol Karman, Facebook’s Oversight Committee and anti-Israel rhetoric
As social media becomes increasingly dominant, a clear shift has been occurring among the tech giants of Silicon Valley. Major Internet platforms have been gradually moving from operating as neutral online platforms to full-fledged...
Who checks Twitter’s Trump fact-checkers?
Many cheered this week when they saw that Twitter had added a warning label to two of President Donald Trump’s tweets. The tweets concerned the president’s allegation that an election in which most ballots...
Israeli minister calls on Twitter CEO to ban Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei
Newly appointed Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen has sent a letter to Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey calling for the immediate suspension of the Twitter account of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his...