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<p>ATHENS—<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-behind-the-new-wave-in-anti-semitic-hate">Antisemitic hate crimes are soaring in New York City</a>, and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mayor-eric-adams-gets-called-out-by-tooning-out-the-news-anchor">Mayor Eric Adams</a> is proposing legally-enforced federal regulations to cut hate speech and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-are-going-mainstream">antisemitism on social media platforms</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/swaggering-eric-adams-has-strong-sweaty-cop-energy">Adams</a> told The Daily Beast—during interviews in New York this week and on a trip to Greece at the start of the month—that the U.S. should consider the introduction of laws to force companies <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gen-z-is-ready-to-torpedo-social-medias-echo-chambers">to curb online hate </a>if social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook fail to clamp down more effectively themselves.</p>
<p>“Clean up your act before you are legislated or mandated to clean up your act,” he said, calling on lawmakers in Congress to act, “We have an obligation to make sure that companies are not harmful to the American public.”</p>
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Adams told The Daily Beast—during interviews in New York this week and on a trip to Greece at the start of the month—that the U.S. should consider the introduction of laws to force companies to curb online hate if social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook fail to clamp down more effectively themselves.
“Clean up your act before you are legislated or mandated to clean up your act,” he said, calling on lawmakers in Congress to act, “We have an obligation to make sure that companies are not harmful to the American public.”
