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(JEWISH GROUP) The Dark Side of Social Media: How it Fuels Antisemitism (from 2022!)
According to the Anti-Defamation League, 2021 was a low point in the history of American antisemitism.
The organization tallied 2,717 antisemitic incidents for that year, the most since it began collecting data in 1979.
In the newly published book "Antisemitism on Social Media," a group of scholars examines how Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms may be fueling this rise in the United States and globally.
Co-edited by Sabine von Mering, professor of German and women's, gender and sexuality studies, and Monika Hübscher, a PhD candidate at the University of Haifa, Israel, it is the first comprehensive academic study of the subject.
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The whole world was standing there, suppressing antisemitism, and when Oct. 7 happened, it said, ‘Oh, look. It happened. So we can do it, too.’ ”
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