(Jewish Group) Wikipedia fixed its swastika problem fast. Why can't anyone else?
Hate speech is notoriously hard to police online, and nearly every major social media platform has been criticized in the recent past for allowing disinformation and hate to proliferate on their platforms.
Wikipedia, meanwhile, got a hacker’s swastikas off of its site in under five minutes.
On Monday morning, a Wikipedia template was vandalized, impacting a wide range of pages across many unrelated topics. The change to the template caused each impacted page to show up as red, with an enormous, blaring swastika in the center; the original contents of the page, including the title, were not visible.
Input Magazine reported that Johnny Depp’s page had been turned into a giant Nazi flag at 9:52 a.m., but one minute later, the page had reverted to its usual form. Tweets also pointed out the same swastika effect on pages for Joseph Stalin and philosopher Theodor Adorno, as well as celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez and Madonna, among others.
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I added a link to past story as an example of what the author is discussing. Of course, I read about this story on a non-Jewish site first, and the comments ranged from the blasé ( "who cares?" ) to the expected anti-Semitic ( "Whatcha doing there Rabbi?" ). The latter implying the attack was actually the work of Jews. That type of response is more common than one might think anytime anti-Semitism is involved, including in left-wing spaces!
