ADL Report: Widespread Anti-Semitic Harassment of Journalists on Twitter during 2016 Campaign

08-600The Anti-Defamation League released a new report documenting a flood of anti-Semitic posts on Twitter this election season, much of it targeting Jewish journalists. The ADL studied almost 20,000 anti-Jewish tweets directed at some 800 journalists. The group said the trend was unlike anything seen before in modern politics. Overall, according to the ADL, 2.6 million anti-Semitic tweets were posted on Twitter between August 2015 and July 2016.

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