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October 13, 2022 24 mins
This week: Rapper Kanye West is spreading antisemitism, Jews are fighting about it, and the head of the Anti-Defamation League recently compared the man who would own Twitter, Elon Musk, to notorious antisemite Henry Ford. How are these things all connected? By a failure of Jewish leadership on internet policy.

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Kanye West background: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/10/kanye-west-antisemitic-tweet-musk-texas/

Texas law: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/16/5th-circuit-rewrites-a-century-of-1st-amendment-law-to-argue-internet-companies-have-no-right-to-moderate/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/16/5th-circuit-texas-social-media-law/

Elon Musk: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/elon-musk-texts-twitter-trial-jack-dorsey/671619/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/7/23391646/elon-musk-twitter-filings-acquisition-deposition-schedule

Musk's moderation approach: https://www.jta.org/2022/04/26/united-states/what-elon-musks-purchase-of-twitter-could-mean-for-jewish-users-and-antisemitism-on-the-platform

ADL's write up on Musk buying Twitter: https://www.adl.org/blog/elon-musk-plans-to-buy-twitter-right-wing-extremists-rejoice

Greenblatt's Ford gaffe: https://www.jta.org/2022/10/07/politics/adls-jonathan-greenblatt-praises-elon-musk-as-a-modern-henry-ford-then-reconsiders

https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1578505162649636865

ADL resources: https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/disrupt-online-hate-harassment

https://www.adl.org/repair-plan

https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/Repair%20Plan_Fact%20Sheet_FINAL.pdf

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PD_CpjsLj5c3x0rHznWcgrUtyaeSYhoef7ExQ65SeoY/edit?usp=sharing

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