The Jewish journalist who shed a light on the tactic used by far-right activists to identify Jews on Twitter so they can be attacked has quit the social media platform over its handling of antisemitic abuse.
Jon Weisman’s New York Times article on May 26 highlighted how the extremist alt-right movement in the US tweets with brackets - known as an “echo” - around Jews’ names to flag them up for fellow extremists to attack.
In a series of tweets yesterday, Mr Weisman condemned the way that Twitter had responded to the antisemitic attacks that he and other prominent Jews have been subjected to on the site.
He wrote: “One of the Times’ social media gurus went through the worst of the Nazi antisemites and forwarded them to @twitter.”
