At B’nai B’rith International we use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, in conjunction with our website, to connect, engage and bring people together. But we also recognize the power of these tools to spread messages of hate and intolerance. In many ways, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel is fueled and renewed by social media. And familiarity with these mediums is crucial to building relationships and understanding and tolerance.
And so we too, have to use social media to spread the truth, to counter the hate and to educate. We work directly with Facebook, helping determine the very fine line that often runs between free speech and hate speech. In meetings with Facebook community standards officials, we point out offensive language and pictures, and what often seems like a different standard for pro-Israel and Jewish pages. |
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