Neo-Nazis Are Targeting Victims Online With This Secret Symbol Hidden in Plain Sight – (((Echoes))), Exposed: The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online| Mic

Neo-Nazis Are Targeting Victims Online With This Secret Symbol Hidden in Plain Sight – (((Echoes))), Exposed: The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online| Mic

In the early days of the social web, putting someone’s name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug. Today, it’s something far more sinister.
Neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white nationalists have begun using three sets of parentheses encasing a Jewish surname — for instance, (((Fleishman))) — to identify and target Jews for harassment on blogs and major social media sites like Twitter. As one white supremacist tweeted, „It’s closed captioning for the Jew-blind.“