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WWW or KKK? Wiesenthal Center reports hike in ‘online hate’

WWW or KKK? Wiesenthal Center reports hike in ‘online hate’
— “‘I could have wiped out all the Jews in the world, but I left a few of them so that you would understand why I would have destroyed them,’ reads the Arabic text on a Facebook group page praising Adolf Hitler.”
— “This example of online hate is just a sample of similar content revealed in a new report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center titled ‘Facebook, YouTube and How Social Media Outlets Impact Digital Terrorism and Hate,’ which details the size and scope of Internet hate and terror sites in 2009 and was presented to Foreign Ministry officials on Monday.”
— “The report says some 10,000 hate sites, games and other online postings now call the Internet home.”

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