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Googleplex Headquarters, San Jose, Calif. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Google, Amazon, Wish remove white-supremacist items from platforms

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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...
British rapper Wiley, Nov. 25, 2011. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

UK Home Secretary blasts Twitter, Instagram, over ‘abhorrent’ anti-Semitic posts

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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...
British Labour Party member Lloyd Russell-Moyle. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

UK Labour Party member apologizes for online anti-Semitic remarks

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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...
Mason Hall and the Academic Quadrangle at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pomona College senior-class president posts anti-Semitic statements on social media

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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...
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Credit: ADL.

ADL joins with other civil-rights groups in calling for July boycott of Facebook

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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...
Rapper and film actor Ice Cube at a screening for "Ride Along" in Chicago, on Jan. 9, 2014. Credit: Adam Bielawski via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish groups react to more anti-Semitic tweets by Ice Cube

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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...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter stands in front of the Facebook wall during his visit to the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., April 23, 2015. Carter is on a two-day trip to Silicon Valley. Before visiting the company, Carter delivered a lecture at Stanford University, where he unveiled the Defense Department's new cyber strategy. DoD photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Clydell Kinchen

Tawakkol Karman, Facebook’s Oversight Committee and anti-Israel rhetoric

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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...
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Credit: Troy Holden via Wikimedia Commons.

Who checks Twitter’s Trump fact-checkers?

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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...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Dec. 27, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli minister calls on Twitter CEO to ban Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei

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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...
The anti-Semitic cryptocurrency “HoloCoin” being traded on the Saturn platform. Source: Screenshot via StopAntisemism.org.

‘HoloCoin’ cryptocurrency offers users to buy/sell ashes of Jews burnt in Holocaust

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A anti-Semitic website that is now shut down offered users the opportunity to trade a cryptocurrency called the “HoloCoin,” a reference to the Holocaust, in which Jews and the ashes of Jews burnt can...