>>13138931Fact Check-The ADL did not designate ‘sneed’ as a hate symbol
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-adl-sneed/fact-check-the-adl-did-not-designate-sneed-as-a-hate-symbol-idUSL1N2OS1RVThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) did not add the term “sneed” to its hate symbols database. An image was digitally altered onto a screenshot of its website to make it seem as if the term, which had appeared on The Simpsons in the past as a joke, had been designated as a hate slogan by the ADL.
The image does not feature on the ADL website, which monitors extremist content, and Reuters confirmed with the ADL that the term and associated text had not been uploaded to its database (
www.adl.org/hate-symbols).
The term “sneed” relates to a play on words of a store front name that features in an episode of The Simpsons
Reuters found that the doctored image had first circulated on 4chan before being shared on Facebook and Twitter.
“Alt-right/4chan internet trolls will do this from time to time – photoshop innocuous images as part of our Hate Symbols Database in order to show that the database can’t be taken seriously,” an ADL spokesperson told Reuters via email.
