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How an anti-Semitic slur made its way onto maps across the internet
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Snapchat users were greeted with an alarming change to Snap Maps this morning: New York City had been renamed “Jewtropolis.”
Even worse, social media was filled reports of maps on other websites and services with the same change, including Zillow, The Weather Channel, Citibike, and Streeteasy.
Whatever mapping service that Snapchat, CitiBike, StreetEasy, (perhaps others) use — it seems — is showing New York City as “Jewtropolis” this morningpic.twitter.com/nsVe8goLyo
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) August 30, 2018
Couldn’t find a way to report directly to @streeteasy or @zillow or @openstreetmap so here’s a screen shot of a condo located in “Jewtropolis”. Assuming they’ve been hacked. Might want to get on that and fix it#Antisemitic @ADL_National pic.twitter.com/Z36GdrzLo9
— Brian P. Klein (@brianpklein) August 30, 2018 Read more…
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