YouTube, TikTok and Instagram remain the platforms of choice among American youth.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The agency warns the public to be vigilant against Tehran's intel tactics.
The few pro-Israel accounts need to be defended,” the IDF veteran said.
Online incitement targeting Arab teens has also been traced back to the Palestinian Authority and local PA Arab clergy.
The same people unquestionably parroting Hamas's fake numbers, repeated the Israeli joke, believing it was real.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Noy Leyb believes antisemitism lies behind Tinder and Hinge dropping him from the platforms.
These social media channels encourage activities such as hanging signs composed by the Iranians, photographing demonstrators and filling out surveys.
Arab terror groups are known for exploiting social media to recruit children.
The terrorist orgs are brainwashing their children to be cannon fodder via the social networks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Objectionable" speech? Well, there goes free speech.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
You no longer need to leave your home, much less your country to get hit with antisemitism these days.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jews of New York representatives have gone out into the city streets to erase hate, such as "Jews suck" written on light posts. But threats against the city's Jews persist daily.
“That is something that nobody has talked about or tracked before—that media could actually make a difference in making the world a safer place,” said Daniel Pomerantz, CEO of HonestReporting.
Many people have asked me to comment on Miriam Anzovin’s Daf Reactions on TikTok.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
During Communication Minister Yoaz Hendel's meeting with U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, he discussed the need for cooperation between regulators to effectively regulate social networks.
“This coordinated attack on Billie Eilish is another example of how social media is used nefariously to manipulate public opinion and to attack and harass any artist, entertainer, or influencer that says anything positive about Israel.”
Baruch Marzel and Benzi Gopstein discovered they were blocked.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The five major social-media companies failed to act upon 84 percent of anti-Semitic posts on their platforms.
By David Isaac
The bill requires platforms to clearly state their policies for removing content and blocking users by providing “an available response in the Hebrew language for the investigation of complaints” and to offer a way for users to ask about removal; it also clarifies when they can seek damages in court.
“The lack of boundaries, combined with the growing success of this platform, makes it an ideal virtual home for hate speech and extremist content,” it concluded.
The woman has a large following on social media.
Vote now while you're still allowed to express your opinion.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The decline in negative comments towards Israel and normalization was in part due to the public awareness campaigns carried out by the various governments that joined the Abraham Accords.
Iran has been using social media in Hebrew to rile up Israelis against PM Netanyahu.
An investigation conducted by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs (MSA) discovered that at least 21% of posts related to an International Criminal Courts (ICC) investigation against Israel came from fake Twitter accounts - and had 180% greater engagement rates than posts from real users.
Dear President Trump, as a true ally of the Jewish State I am asking you to withdraw the State Department's latest human rights biased report against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We hope this campaign finally shows Facebook how much their users and their advertisers want them to make serious changes for the better,” said ADL national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The soldier has reportedly previously posted violent messages against Netanyahu and the government.
More than 1.5 million Arabic speakers from 22 Arab countries also follow Israel in Arabic on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
Campaigns that seek to manipulate public debate on social media originated in Iran and focused on a wide range of countries including Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt, Ghana, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, the US, UK and Zimbabwe.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Over the past week there was an upsurge in online global anti-Semitism tying Israel and Jews to the Coronavirus.
“We have hit an Israeli jeep with a rocket,” “we have bombed Jerusalem,” “five Israelis killed in a rocket attack” – these are a few of the “news” items the Hamas terror organization has been dispersing since the Islamic Jihad launched an attack on Israel on Tuesday morning.
Ali Abu Habla wrote that “this is a dark day in the history of Palestinian journalism," which doesn't have much of a history, as it is.
Too much noise in our lives.
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains more than 800 online channels in 50 languages.
By JoeSettler
If the media didn't learn from Tuvia Grossman, why will it learn now from Covington Catholic High School?
Once again, the enemy is trying to lure IDF soldiers into downloading their spy app using fake profiles.
“The court’s decision is revolutionary because for the first time, Facebook is required to look at users as people with rights and not just as goods.”
By JNi.Media
'Israeli Intelligence has developed a predictive policing system that analyzes social media posts to identify Palestinian suspects.'
By JNi.Media
In May 2016, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube signed an EU-sponsored code of conduct pledging to improve the mechanism of removing hate speech and other extremist material.
By JNi.Media
At last, Mark Zuckerberg received an answer to his desperate question about where all this hate is coming from – we don't know for sure where it come from, but we know whom it comes through – Mark Zuckerberg.
Talks spanning the topics of Jerusalem, Jordan, and Norway.
By JNi.Media
'Roger Waters is an anti-Semite. He should not be allowed to peddle hatred in our backyard without protest.'
By JNi.Media
'On WhatsApp, I usually feel that I am not being judged, particularly because there isn’t any eye contact or physical contact, only words and signs.'
JewishPress.com blogger Ari Fuld was banned from Facebook for pointing out that radical Islamic terrorists kill Jews.
By JNi.Media
'I am appalled that the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia disingenuously posted this incomplete and misleading video.'
By JNi.Media
According to AP, a ministry duty officer who maintained his or her anonymity, confirmed that it was an 'official joke.'
By JNi.Media
'We knew that anti-Semitism online was on the rise, but the numbers revealed in this report give us concrete data as to how alarming the situation really is.'
The link between the Israeli and Chinese peoples is an ancient one, dating from the Jewish community in Kaifeng a thousand years ago.
By JNi.Media
Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, who told local TV station 12News that 'when you joke with symbols like the swastika you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society.'
By JNi.Media
"I don’t find anything that is good about being Jewish in Scotland." (F, 60s, Glasgow)
By JNi.Media
CST recorded 557 anti-Semitic incidents nationwide during the first half of 2016, compared with 500 anti-Semitic incidents during the first six months of 2015.
By JNi.Media
A Rabbi of the Rabbinical Center of Europe told the EU official she cannot constantly undermine the foundations of Judaism: brit milah and kosher shechitah, and talk about wanting to eradicate anti-Semitism.
Ira and Rod discuss the good and bad of social media.
By JoeSettler
How do you fight an opponent who wins by manipulating through media and drowning out opposing voices?
The NGO Shurat Hadin-The Israel Law Center on Monday reported on an experiment it ran which proves unequivocally that Facebook has different standards for Palestinian and Israeli hate.
By JNi.Media
Children exposed to the horrific photos and videos of terror attacks on social networks have developed symptoms of anxiety in public places.
By JoeSettler
Bloodlust and incitement drives them, but what turns a single terror act into a raging epidemic of Arab terror?
The Prime Minister will meet with radical Islamic leaders Sunday simultaneous with a clampdown on incitement.
The Islamic State gets 90,000 positive social media responses every day.
Homeland Committee chairman McCaul is “worried about our ability to combat this threat abroad, but also here at home."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Facebook has announced that it has appointed Adi Soffer-Teeni as the company’s CEO in Israel. The current executive chairman of the grammar and spell-checking program Ginger Software, Soffer-Teeni will head Facebook’s commercial operations in Israel and help clients and agencies develop their marketing strategies at the social network. She will focus on building up the […]
Judges at Jeddah criminal court reportedly dropped the heaviest charge of apostasy - which carries an automatic death sentence.
Most foreign media always give Israel the dirty end of the stick and make its enemies smell like roses. The IDF has put Hezbollah, Israel’s most immediate threat, in the crosshairs of a new media weapon.
Not a week passes without some new rumor from Syria tearing up the social media channels. Here's the latest about Assad.
On the NY Times Public Editor's blog, Margaret Sullivan talks about the leash they'll be putting on Jodi Rudoren, the NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief. After Rudoren's not very well thought out foray into the world of social media, and the serious missteps that followed, the NY Times has decided to appoint an editor to handle Rudoren's […]
"Some reporters are anti-Israel, others are pro-Israel and most are objective," Edelstein said.
Obama did not have an aspirational candidacy, he had an aspirational brand. A brand that people wanted to be a part of, because it made them feel good about themselves.
By dvora
Music played loudly while the men danced. On the women’s side of the mechitzah, we tried to speak over the sounds. I leaned over the table to hear what my co-worker’s wife was saying.
The first six sections of my story have focused on my struggles adapting to a strange college environment forced on me against my will. While that story is self-contained, I thought it would be worthwhile to at least partially answer the main question my book will address: What ended up happening to me? This is a fast-forwarded account that describes my watershed moment as a college student.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Utilizing social networking as its base, Jobsminer.com is the only job search engine that aggregates jobs in real time from social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, and more.
While things might have seemed very strange in this foreign college environment, especially because I was tossed in without any roadmap to help me navigate and understand the kinds of things I was seeing all around me, there was one area I was not worried about: academics. Northeastern Illinois has a rather derogatory nickname, “Northeasy," and it does not have a very good academic reputation. I didn’t think my classes would be very hard at all.
Realizing that there was no backing out of college at this point, I resigned myself to my fate. I was in college, like it or not, but I didn’t believe that I really belonged in college.
Within the span of just a few weeks, everything I knew about myself and all of my plans were destroyed. I was out of yeshiva, living at home and enrolled in classes at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU).