In 2016, people have read anti-Semitic tweets 10 billion times, many from Trump supporters
Source: Washington Post
By Julie Zauzmer
https://twitter.com/JulieZauzmer
October 19 at 10:00 AM
On Monday, a reporter received a sickening Twitter message: A photo of her face, with a Nazi-style yellow star superimposed and a bloody bullet hole Photoshopped in the middle of her forehead. ... “Don’t mess with our boy Trump or you will be first in line for the camp,” the message to Politico reporter Hadas Gold said.
That message to Gold resembled more than 2 million tweets containing language associated with anti-Semitism, all posted in a one-year period, the Anti-Defamation League found in a new analysis published on Wednesday. ... And those hateful tweets didn’t just vanish into the netherworld of the Internet: The ADL found that Twitter users viewed these tweets a staggering 10 billion times.
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The ADL report focused in particular on the anti-Semitic tweets aimed at journalists, frequently those whose writing about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has displeased a large contingent of Twitter users who band together to attack these journalists online. The words most commonly found in the bios of the people who post these anti-Semitic attacks? “Trump,” “nationalist,” conservative,” “American” and “white.”
Some of Trump’s campaign staff and many of his supporters have been associated with anti-Semitic speech themselves, and in recent days, observers have noted with alarm that Trump’s talk about a global conspiracy echoes old anti-Semitic tropes.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/19/in-one-year-people-have-read-anti-semitic-tweets-a-staggering-10-billion-times/
The ADL report is analysis, but the article about the release of the ADL report is news.
When I posted, there was only one comment to the article. It was not anti-Semitic. How long that state of affairs will last, I cannot say.
I didn't see a link in the article to the report. Here you go:
https://twitter.com/ADL_National
Explore our Task Force report: http://bit.ly/2e7JkaS
which looks at online #antiSemitism: http://bit.ly/2e7JkaS
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