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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 196
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October 30, 2023, 9:03 am
Supporting Israeli businesses in tangible ways
‘The street shops are closed and a lot of people around the world want to support Israel in many ways. This is one way.’
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June 1, 2023, 12:06 pm
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Mia Gardiner
August 4, 2022, 9:09 am
Social media giant pulls antisemitic comment
'We look forward to a time when comments of this nature are removed automatically without the need for higher-level intervention.'
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Peter Kohn
March 31, 2022, 10:15 am
Facebook finally acts
After a review, an antisemitic comment equating Jews with Nazis has been removed by Facebook.
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Gareth Narunsky
November 15, 2021, 6:00 am
Facebook’s name change face-plant
Facebook’s new name caused a stir in Israel, where the company’s new name “Meta” is similar to the Hebrew word for “dead”.
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AJN STAFF
February 25, 2021, 9:00 am
Facebook unfriends Dvir Abramovich
ADC chair: 'I was punished, without an opportunity for appeal, for presenting the antisemitism I have directly experienced'.
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Evan Zlatkis
October 22, 2020, 9:00 am
Tackling denial will be a challenge for Facebook
'Changing the policy is only the first step, implementing it will be the real test'.
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Dr Andre Oboler
October 15, 2020, 12:00 am
Time for real change
It took two years too long, but Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are to be commended for taking the right course of action and barring any content claiming the Holocaust didn't happen.
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AJN STAFF
October 15, 2020, 12:00 am
Holocaust deniers denied a platform
Facebook announced that it will now ban any posts that deny or distort the Holocaust, a landmark change from its previous policy.
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Evan Zlatkis
August 13, 2020, 12:00 am
Push against antisemitism on Facebook
This week, more than 120 organisations signed an open letter calling on Facebook to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism.
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Peter Kohn
August 11, 2020, 6:34 pm
Facebook needs the IHRA definition
'What Facebook needs is a specific policy on antisemitism that captures all the ways it manifests. Ideally one supported by international experts, governments, and civil society'.
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Dr Andre Oboler
July 16, 2020, 12:00 am
Facebook ‘failing miserably’ on hate speech
Calling on Facebook to improve its handling of racist and violent content, hundreds of companies have suspended their Facebook advertising for one month as part of a new campaign.
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Sophie Deutsch
July 26, 2018, 12:00 am
Facebook is stuck in denial
If Facebook doesn’t revise its outdated policy on Holocaust denial, regulators will inevitably change it for them. That will leave Facebook and the Zuckerbergs not just stuck in the past, but on the wrong side of history.
January 18, 2018, 12:00 am
A remarkable present from the past
Pure chance, timing and the magic of social media came together this week to dramatically solve NSW woman Heidi Blackwell's 15-year-old mystery about the owner of a box full of items documenting a Jewish couple's escape from Nazi Germany to Australia via Shanghai.
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Shane Desiatnik
June 22, 2017, 12:01 am
Presenter’s post offends
A PRESENTER on community radio station 3CR has come under fire from ECAJ after posting a message on Facebook that appeared to justify the murder of Israeli border police officer Hadas Malka.
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