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Israel: Rise of Social Media Linked to Rising Anti-Semitism
(AP) Edith M. Lederer - Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon told a High-Level Forum on Anti-Semitism on Wednesday that media companies should "stop providing a platform for hate sites," saying there is a clear link between the rise of social media and the rise of anti-Semitism. He called on media companies to "start developing mechanisms to detect and report on racist and anti-Semitic search results." Danon said Google recently took down an interactive program used to identify and target Jews on the Internet. It let users around the world "tag people who they thought had a Jewish-sounding name or who openly supported Israel," Danon said. "By the time it was shut down it had a vast database of names." U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power called for "more effective tools to monitor and confront anti-Semitism online and in social media." But she stressed that freedom of speech must be protected "even in some of its most hateful forms."