Today, the Anti-Defamation League released a new report on anti-semitic harassment of journalists, detailing more than 20,000 instances over the course of a year. The report is worth reading in full, but the conclusion is fairly simple: there are too many white supremacists on Twitter. They’ve become a persistent part of the platform, and raise real questions about Twitter’s future as a company. Harassment is a far broader problem than just racists, but over the past few months, the most visible form of abuse on Twitter has been anti-semitic trolls colliding with reporters. Response tweets, often tagging Jack Dorsey directly, have become a mainstay of political Twitter.

Anti-semitic trolling has been present in certain murky corners of…

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