U.K. Lawmakers Urge Twitter, Labour to Fight Antisemitism
- Panel urges Twitter to address ‘pernicious’ problem online
- Labour’s Corbyn slammed for ‘lack of consistent leadership’
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Twitter Inc. and the U.K. Labour Party need to do more to stamp out antisemitism, a cross-party panel of British lawmakers said.
Twitter came in for the sharpest criticism from the Home Affairs Committee, which expressed shock at the “viscerally antisemitic nature and volume of tweets directed specifically at members of Parliament.” It flagged online abuse suffered by Jewish Labour lawmakers, including Luciana Berger, who it said received more than 2,500 tweets in 2014.