By the Patriots' Stadium, Robert Kraft's Data Crunchers Track Antisemitism
Floor-to-ceiling screens distilled patterns from social-media posts worldwide that flooded into computers at the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, where Katz is president. One graph caught his eye. It showed a rise in messages calling the attack a 'false flag' operation orchestrated by Jews to manipulate public opinion.
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