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As lawyers for both sides offered their
closing statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin on Monday, a thousand miles away, executives at Facebook were preparing for the verdict to drop.
Seeking to avoid incidents like the one last summer in which 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse
the social media company said it would take actions aimed at “preventing online content from being linked to offline harm.”
(Chauvin is the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty Tuesday of the second-degree murder of George Floyd
last May; the Kenosha shootings took place in August 2020 after a local militia group
called on armed civilians to defend the city amid protests against the police shooting of another Black man, Jacob Blake.)
What could happen when the antisemitism, racism and hate speech proliferating on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram transform from written posts to spoken, untraceable words?
This April marks a year since Clubhouse, the audio-only social networking platform, was first launched, allowing users to open “rooms” for conversations on topics of interest. In the last few months, the platform has gained a reputation as a thriving, popularized marketplace of often Jewish ideas and community. Rabbis become “breakout stars” on the app, observers opine that it holds “a glimpse of the Jewish future” and others say it’s become the “digital version of the Jewish conference circuit hallway.”
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On an unseasonably warm day in February, two men working with a local community group went door to door in an ethnically diverse neighbourhood to persuade people to sign up for Covid-19 vaccinations.
It was just after 11 a.m. when they encountered the first person reluctant to get a shot. Two doors down and 30 minutes later, it happened again. For nearly an hour, they stood on a front lawn with George Rodriguez, 67, chatting about the neighbourhood, the pandemic and the available vaccines.
“I see all this stuff online, about how it’s going to change my DNA. It does something to your DNA, right?” asked Rodriguez, who is Hispanic. “There is just too much stuff out, too much conflicting information. And then I hear that even if you get the vaccine you can still get sick. Why would I get it, then?”
Black and Hispanic Communities Grapple With Vaccine Misinformation
The false information arrives on social media and fringe news sites, influencing people already facing other hurdles to getting vaccinated. Some activists are going door to door to counter it.
Daniel Lander and Armando Mateos, who are working for a community group trying to dispel vaccine misinformation, distributing pamphlets, masks and more in San Jose, Calif.Credit.Ulysses Ortega for The New York Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. On an unseasonably warm day in February, two men working with a local community group went door to door in an ethnically diverse neighborhood to persuade people to sign up for Covid-19 vaccinations.