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Amazon launched an investigation after its Alexa device was accused of spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. According to TMZ, the issue was recently brought to light by the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism. The political group penned a letter to UK Amazon executives, pointing to several instances in which the virtual assistant had shared bigoted conspiracies when asked about about Jewish […]
Germany has agreed to pay more than half a billion dollars to help Holocaust survivors during the global coronavirus pandemic. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announced this week, per the Associated Press, that the new payments will be distributed to an estimated 240,000 survivors around the world. In a statement shared Tuesday, Gideon […]
The Jordan Peele-produced Amazon Prime series Hunters has been called out by the Auschwitz Memorial for a historically inaccurate depiction of something that never happened during the Holocaust, Variety reports. The show’s opening credits include a scene from the premiere episode where a Jewish chess master is forced to play a game of chess, in which his fellow prisoners are meant to represent each piece. With […]
The family that owns the food brand Krispy Kreme is trying to right some historical wrongs. The Reimann family has revealed a multi-million dollar charity donation after an investigation divulged that their Nazi ancestors used slave labor during World War II, CNN reports. The Reimanns—who also own Panera Bread—announced on Thursday that they will donate […]
Will.i.am has joined the growing list of artists who have come to Michael Jackson‘s defense. In the weeks since HBO aired Leaving Neverland, a two-part documentary that detailed Jackson’s alleged sexual abuse on minors, calls for a King of Pop boycott have significantly increased, with some radio stations vowing to remove the late entertainer’s music […]
