#iComment: Twitter a hornet’s nest for anti-Semitic speech
by Ana Ribeiro
In the international battle against hate speech and fake news, Facebook has taken a lot of flak for the scourge’s proliferation, especially from German politicians and authorities. But watchdogs are now turning the spotlight onto a phenomenon most linked to Twitter: users' promotion of anti-Semitic messages.
Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry recently released a study noting differences in the way anti-Semitism is currently expressed. It has now largely moved online: the report cited research estimating anti-Semitic posts were popping up on social media every 83 seconds in 2016, nearly two-thirds of…