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By Joe Veix
A deep dive into an
abusive Neo-Nazi Chrome app built by self-proclaimed Trump supporters
reveal it also targets The Donald’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Hordes of online Neo-Nazis thought they were being pretty clever.
They developed a coded insignia that could secretly mark out Jewish public figures and writers. Mic discovered this week that a Google Chrome app allowed fellow Nazis, trolls, and self-identified Donald Trump supporters to search blogs and social media and help them target the Jewish people who had been identified.
Typing the (((echoes))) symbol around a name acts like a corrupted anti-Semitic trigger warning and flags its targets as Jewish or “anti-white” to other bigoted users. Since most sites strip parentheses and other punctuation from search results, it is extremely difficult to find specific instances on social media, making it challenging to trace patterns of abuse.
When
The Daily Beast examined the Chrome app, it also emerged that a list of
named Jewish actors, directors, and media figures were being targeted.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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