Lieblein: Taking the fight to the haters
Josh Lieblein writes that “right or left, populist or establishment, online anti-Semites and their falsehoods must be faced directly and destroyed with relentless truth.”
How the Wild West of social media will be won
Facebook and other social media sites are fuelling the haters. What can be done to combat it? Jesse Hirsh investigates.
Twitter suspends accounts aiming fake news at the Israeli public
Twitter recently suspended 61 accounts linked to foreign fake news manipulation campaigns aimed at the Israeli public.
Ryerson students looking for answers over prof’s ‘anti-Semitic’ tweets
Nine months after complaining to Ryerson, students say they’re still waiting for an explanation for how an instructor’s anti-Jewish tweets were handled.
YOUR DAILY SPIEL FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 10
Today’s spiel: Israel speeds up building of Gaza barrier; German-Israeli artist takes elaborate measures to draw attention to Twitter’s refusal to remove racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic tweets; Iranian blogger safe in Israel.
UPDATED: McGill student society executive calls for ‘punch a zionist’ tweeter’s resignation
The executive of the Students’ Society of McGill University has recommended that the director and councillor now infamous for tweeting “punch a zionist today” resign from both positions.
