Twitter: Oops, we didn’t really mean for you to 'Kill all Jews'
Twitter has apologized for offending New Yorkers with the trending hashtag #KillAllJews after racial and anti-Semitic epithets were found scrawled on a Brooklyn synagogue wall before a scheduled political event.
The phrase was initially believed to be among those found written in black marker on the wall of Union Temple Thursday night, but the NYPD confirmed that the graffiti actually read, “die Jew rat,” “end is now,” and “Hitler,” among other Anti-Semitism 101 slogans. A custodian claimed to have seen “Kill all Jews” written on a door, and the inaccurate phrase was picked up and amplified by Twitter users.
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“This phrase should not have appeared in trends, and we’re sorry for this mistake,” a Twitter spokesperson told media outlets. “This was trending as a result of coverage and horrified reactions to the vandalism against a synagogue in New York. Regardless, it should not have appeared as a trend.” The statement was conspicuously absent from the company’s Twitter feed.…
The phrase was initially believed to be among those found written in black marker on the wall of Union Temple Thursday night, but the NYPD confirmed that the graffiti actually read, “die Jew rat,” “end is now,” and “Hitler,” among other Anti-Semitism 101 slogans. A custodian claimed to have seen “Kill all Jews” written on a door, and the inaccurate phrase was picked up and amplified by Twitter users.
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“This phrase should not have appeared in trends, and we’re sorry for this mistake,” a Twitter spokesperson told media outlets. “This was trending as a result of coverage and horrified reactions to the vandalism against a synagogue in New York. Regardless, it should not have appeared as a trend.” The statement was conspicuously absent from the company’s Twitter feed.…