JTA — A “community note” saying falsely that Leo Frank, the victim of an antisemitic lynching in 1915, was guilty of raping and murdering a young girl appeared and disappeared several times over the weekend on X, the platform known until recently as Twitter.
Community notes, which allow users to contribute additional context about tweets, were expanded in late 2022 as new owner Elon Musk’s favored tool for battling misinformation on the platform. But the community note about Frank offers the latest indication that the technology can be misused.
The note was appended to tweets by the Anti-Defamation League and its CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, marking the anniversary of Frank’s lynching. The Jewish civil rights group was founded in the wake of the case.
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Whites and Blacks and Mexicans and Kikes all lie all night long on the TV.
If there is a group who doesnt 'outright' lie, please let me know
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I lean towards Jewish influence pardoning the rapist but is there a legit source on what really happend?
We are in 1984 right now with history being rewritten nonstop
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Efforts to vindicate justice for Leo Frank were strengthened in 1982, when eighty-three-year-old Alonzo Mann, who ran errands in the factory as a boy, came forward to announce that he had seen the factory janitor carrying Mary Phagan's body to the basement on the day of her death. The janitor had threatened to kill him if he told anyone. ADL’s Atlanta-based Southern Counsel, Charles Wittenstein and prominent immigration lawyer and national ADL leader Dale Schwartz led a vigorous legal campaign to clear Frank’s name. And on March 11, 1986, those efforts were rewarded with a pardon. The landmark decision, however, did not exonerate Frank and prove his innocence. Instead, Georgia pardoned Frank because of their failure to protect him and bring his murderers to justice.
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[ - ] TankTinker -1 points 1.7 yearsAug 22, 2023 21:31:13 ago (+0/-1)*
Not exactly.
At around 10 pm on the night of August 16, 1915 a lynch mob consisting of twenty eight local men including Georgia Governor and the President of the Georgia Senate, the Mayor of Marietta, the County Sheriff , local tradesmen, a hangman and a lay preacher busted Frank out of Milledgeville State Penitentiary.
They handcuffed the Warden, cut the prison's telephone wires and drained the gas from their automobiles, they seized Frank and drove him on a 175 mile seven hour automobile trip to Marietta Georgia, and hanged him from the branch of a tree at around 7:00 am the following morning. Wikipedia.
We will say that once Frank's guilt had been established to reverse the charges so to speak, the Jews organized the lynching to swing the whole thing back in their favor, and then to by clinging to the fiction he was innocent convince the wider public Jews were the aggrieved parties.
Part of Leo Frank's defense was that the black security guard who discovered 13 yo Mary Phagan's body was her murderer, an assertion that was thrown out of court.