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Knesset presses social-media companies to combat online anti-Semitism Knesset presses social-media companies to combat online anti-Semitism Representatives from Twitter, Facebook, Google and TikTok joined a Knesset hearing addressing online hate. Gov't releases first national response to the growing problem. Knesset member Michal Cotler-Wunsh (second from left) leading the Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee hearing addressing online anti-Semitism on Feb. 10, 2020. Credit: Courtesy. (February 11, 2021 / JNS) Representatives from top social medial companies participated in ...

173 shares Silhouettes are seen in front of the logo of US social media Facebook in Brussels, February 14, 2020. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) Israeli ministers and lawmakers on Wednesday presented tech giants Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter with proposals to beef up the fight against anti-Semitism on social media. The companies should institute policies similar to those they employ by labeling misinformation surrounding COVID-19 and the US presidential election, the ministers said. The call came in a policy paper, called “The Hate Factor,” formulated by the Strategic Affairs Mini...

David Thurlow, one of the longest-serving and most respected Daily Express reporters, has died at the age of 88. He was in hospital recovering from surgery to pin a broken hip when he contracted Covid. His wife, Jeanne and children were allowed to be with him during his last 48 hours. Born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in February, 1932, David’s 40-year career in journalism started on the Leicester Evening Mail then followed the Welwyn Times, the Northern Echo, the Yorkshire Evening News, the Daily Herald, Daily Mirror, Anglia Television, the Daily Express for 26 years and finally The Times. ...