How A Canadian Facebook Page Dedicated To Fighting Anti-Semitism Became A Hub For Anti-Muslim Content
political Facebook page that promotes the far-right Jewish Defence League uses a deceptive technique that evades Facebook’s content bans and drives traffic to anti-Muslim websites.
freepressfront.com or speech-point.net. These obscure domains are filled with articles that twist and torque the news, or fabricate headlines, such as “Canadian minister calls to criminalize criticism of Islam” or “Canadian PM calls on Canadians to welcome ISIS terrorists ‘If we welcome them, they won’t attack us.
Link redirection is a common technique used to share domains on Facebook that would otherwise be blocked by the platform. There are online tutorials that describe how to use a Blogpost to redirect to an otherwise blocked domain. In the United States, the FBI considers the JDL a “violent extremist Jewish organization” and deemed it a “right-wing terrorist group.” In Canada, JDL has hosted a far-right speaker, published anti-Muslim rhetoric and worked with the white nationalist group Soldiers of Odin, which wasAvi Shomer, Never Again Canada’s founder, did not respond to written questions about link redirection.
Shomer declined to put the Star and BuzzFeed News in touch with any of the other administrators. The page’s information tab lists the other administrators as living in Israel, the United States, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Spain. The page was created in 2014 and at one point was named “Palestinian Lies Exposed.”
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