Some might blame the unregulated social media moguls for intentionally fomenting hate.

Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Threads or Twitter/X, engagement-farming algorithms calibrated to feed users continual doses of outrage to keep them scrolling are helping to entrench hatred, he says.

“Social media has been amplifying the hate for a decade as algorithms wind us up,” the CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square posted…

That’s pretty direct criticism, but I have to point out Malcolm Nance said it much better.

Regardless of cause, despite how obvious it might be that Elon Musk’s family were known for being anti-Semitic, the FBI wants people to recognize a sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

“The reality is that the Jewish community is uniquely targeted by pretty much every terrorist organization across the spectrum. And when you look at a group that makes up 2.4 percent, roughly, of the American population, it should be jarring to everyone that that same population accounts for something like 60 percent of all religious based hate crimes, and so they need our help,” [FBI Director] Wray said. “This is a threat that is reaching, in some ways, sort of historic levels.”

Related: Twitter’s new logo is a Nazi swastika. Also related:

…fire was set during the night in the Jewish section of Vienna’s central cemetery and swastikas were sprayed on external walls.