When the (((echoes))) symbol is placed around a name it acts like a corrupted anti-Semitic trigger warning, outing its targets as Jewish or “anti-white” to bigoted readers. Since most sites strip parenthesis from searches, it is extremely difficult to search for specific instances on social media; making it challenging to trace patterns of abuse.
When the Daily Beast examined the Chrome app that identifies these , it also emerged that a list of named Jewish actors, directors and media figures were being targeted.
Trump may be the favored presidential candidate of these trolls, but even his family members weren’t safe from anti-Semitic attacks. Hidden in the JavaScript is Jared Kushner—Trump’s son-in-law. The owner of the New York Observer married Ivanka Trump in 2009.
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