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    Re: "Anti-Semitism: Wales tops UK Google searches, report says" Archived Message

    Posted by Sinister Burt on February 2, 2019, 9:19 am, in reply to ""Anti-Semitism: Wales tops UK Google searches, report says""

    My first thought was 'yay wales is best at something!' (i was the same when i heard we have higher prison numbers the other week). This quote makes me think it's a bit flakey:

    "It looked at search terms between 2004 and 2018, including Jew combined with words such as greedy, cheap, racist and ugly.

    Mr Stephens-Davidowitz admitted it would not capture every instance of anti-Semitic searches, but "provides a reliable baseline measure".

    He also acknowledged it was "impossible to know for sure that any given search is made by a person with anti-Semitic attitudes, as it is always possible someone was making a search out of curiosity rather than as a result of malign intent"."

    ...or be a journalist doing 'research'; or a blairite looking for targets.

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