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Short version: Anti-Semitism constructs itself as a conspiracy theory about how the world works, and blames powerful shadowy Jewish figures for all problems. This invariably lands on any Jews who

Richard Spencer is a racist troll who purposely adopts his opponents' causes and pretends to back them in order to undermine them and get attention. That's what he did when

THIS is the real news: In exchange for normalization with the United Arab Emirates, Israel commits not to annexing any of the West Bank. Bibi climbs down from a tree

This is a great example of how misinformation works: not necessarily by saying anything false, but by using a truth to imply something false. Kamala's sister has lupus and takes

I'm late to this, but honestly don't get the uproar. Normal people visit everything from concentration camps to Hitler's bunker in Germany. It's surreal how the touchstones of Jewish genocide

The bizarre thing is that this isn't even a real Hitler quote. It's the Farrakhan-esque conspiracy that Jews aren't the real Jews repackaged as a Hitler quote. Which I guess

The Bubba Wallace noose-that-wasn't story is not the story of a "hoax." Bubba himself didn't report it. Everyone involved tried to do the right thing. It's a story of how

10,000+ retweets, 22,000+ likes. Completely fabricated numbers, totally false conspiratorial claim. As long we continue to reward people who post disinformation designed to manipulate people through their partisan biases into

Twitter is people who only know Biden from 30-second decontextualized attack clips put out by his political opponents telling reporters who've been covering Biden closely for years that *actually* Biden

Twitter has been calling Biden a "weak candidate" for years, but seems to have failed to convince the American electorate. What if it's not Biden who is bad at this

It's fun to focus on onlookers' facial expressions in Trump clips when he says crazy stuff, but process what this one means. Dr. Birx, a career health expert, is clearly

The Guardian published a letter from "prominent members of the Jewish community" defending a Labour MP who'd been suspended from the party over his anti-Semitism. Signatories included a Holocaust denier,