Online Anti-Semitism is Soaring
Foreign trolls and other extremists are targeting Jews on social media.
Terrorists and foreign trolls are driving anti-Semitic hate online in the United States and elsewhere, posting negatively about Jews and driving hatred of Jews and Israel.
A new study analyzed 250 million extremist anti-Jewish posts and found that anti-Jewish posts increased sharply during times of political uncertainty and unrest. Much of the anti-Jewish hate that’s being posted on social media seems to originate with domestic terrorists and foreign “trolls” in Russia and elsewhere: anonymous and misleading actors who are deliberately trying to stoke hatred towards Jews and foment divisions within the United States.
By Aaron Nicodemus2020-12-15T22:16:00+00:00
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a broad and wide-ranging request to nine social media companies and video streaming services for information about how they collect and use the personal information of their users, how they sell that information to advertisers, and how the practices affect children and teens.
The nine companies receiving Monday’s request Amazon.com, ByteDance (which owns TikTok), Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube have been given 45 days to comply.
The business models of these nine digital companies have shifted over time “from supporting users’ activities to monetizing them,” wrote FTC Commissioners Rohit Chopra, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, and Christine Wilson in a statement supporting the requests.
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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Michelle Dang of Pittsburgh has been awarded the GraphicDesignDegreeHub.com Creativity Scholarship for the spring 2021 semester. Dang, a graduate of Mt. Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, PA, is a student at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The $1,500 Graphic Design Creativity Scholarship award is to be used for tuition or academic supplies.
Dang has been very active in both her school and community. As a high school student, Dang and two other artists curated and hosted an art show entitled Earth and Space. They raised over $530 which they used to purchase art supplies for children in under-resourced West Virginia communities. In March 2020, Dang and two others commissioned drawings for 36 donors. They raised over $850, providing 4,250 meals for the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. Through this, I learned how art can be used to serve others, Dane said in her application.
December 14, 2020
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Undeterred by being in the lame duck for Congress, the U.S. Senate on Dec. 8 approved the nomination of Stephen Schwartz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Claims, a nominee with an anti-LGBTQ record who rounds out the unprecedented number of judges confirmed under President Trump.
The vote on the Schwartz confirmation was a strict 49-47 party-line vote, with Republican senators, including Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), voting to approve the Trump pick while Democratic senators voted to reject him.
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