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Bari Weiss in the New York Times newsroom in 2018. (Josefin Dolsten via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Ron Kampeas and Gabe Friedman<\/p>\n

Bari Weiss, a prominent commentator on antisemitism in the United States, is taking a leading role in Elon Musk\u2019s efforts to reshape Twitter by criticizing the platform\u2019s past efforts to combat bigotry and harassment.<\/p>\n

Starting last Thursday, Weiss has been releasing Twitter threads with what she and another opinion journalist, former Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, have deemed the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d \u2014 instances of how former Twitter moderators removed content they deemed as false or dangerous.<\/p>\n

Making use of unusual access to Twitter\u2019s internal records and systems, Weiss and Taibbi have made the case that Twitter has been subject to politically motivated decisions about what to remove by a \u201csecret group\u201d of high-level executives.<\/p>\n

Those executives were tasked with executing Twitter\u2019s moderation policies in sensitive cases, and the leaked communications show them doing so in politically neutral terms. But Weiss and Taibbi have argued that the suspensions doled out to conservative accounts, including former President Donald Trump, reflected a deep bias at the company.<\/p>\n

Twitter shut down its Trust and Safety Council advisory group<\/a>, which included 100 independent civil and human rights organizations, on Monday night. The group was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation and other issues stemming from Twitter activity.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s supporters have been receptive, even forcing into hiding on Monday Yoel Roth, the Jewish former head of trust and safety at Twitter that Musk has falsely accused of stoking pedophilia and who has been targeted in Weiss\u2019 tweets as well.<\/p>\n

Weiss\u2019 Twitter activism puts her at odds with a leading U.S. antisemitism watchdog, the Anti-Defamation League, which has long pushed for stricter moderation on Twitter and called for an advertiser boycott after Musk acquired the platform and expressions of hate spiked on it.<\/p>\n

Weiss \u2014 who first vaulted into public view\u00a0for calling out what she said was antisemitism on her college campus<\/a>, and who\u00a0quit a columnist job at The New York Times over what<\/a>\u00a0she described as bullying from colleagues \u2014 has worked with the ADL in the past. In conjunction with\u00a0her 2019 book \u201cHow to Fight Antisemitism,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0she has appeared at multiple events with the organization,\u00a0as recently as November<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, she is a leading voice opposing what the ADL\u2019s leadership says is one of the most pressing issues compromising American Jews\u2019 safety.<\/p>\n

The ADL declined to comment on Weiss\u2019 involvement with Musk\u2019s new moderation strategies. Weiss did not return requests for an interview.<\/p>\n

Since Roth resigned from Twitter last month, he and Musk have exchanged criticisms on the platform. Over the weekend,\u00a0Musk misrepresented a snippet from Roth\u2019s graduate dissertation<\/a>, writing: \u201cLooks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday night, Musk tweeted a phrase with a rabbit emoji that has become popular with followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement.\u00a0He denied<\/a>\u00a0that he was referring to the movement or aiming a tweet at its followers, but\u00a0QAnon communities across different platforms responded with excitement to his tweet<\/a>, Vice News reported.<\/p>\n

Accusations of pedophilia against public figures are commonplace\u00a0in QAnon, which experts say also draws on antisemitic tropes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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