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TOBY TABACHNICK | CONTRIBUTING WRITER
THE MAN WHO STORMED the Tree of
Life synagogue building on Oct. 27, 2018,
murdering 11 congregants in the midst of
Shabbat prayer, was an active user of the
social media site Gab. His Gab bio said,
“jews are the children of satan,” and his
banner image was an unambiguous refer-
ence to a white supremacist meme. His
fi nal post, just prior to the massacre, read:
“Screw your optics, I’m going in.”
In the months following the Pittsburgh
shooting, many pundits and the ADL urged
social media companies to better police
racist, violent and anti-Semitic accounts and
clarify terms of service to make hateful
content harder to fi nd online — and to
prevent such content from being monetized.

Th e profl igation of extremist activism
online worried experts about radicalization,
as researchers made connections between
violent words and violent actions.

“Th ere are 24/7 rallies online,” Jonathan
Greenblatt, CEO and national director of
the ADL said one year aft er the Pittsburgh
shooting. “With just a few clicks, you can
Th ese people deserve to be remem-
bered as more than statistics, so this is
ALTHOUGH THE CREATION of the Exponent’s fi ft h installment of “Th ose
vaccines means the end of the pandemic We’ve Lost.”
could be in sight, the country faces grim
statistics this winter.

Gilbert Liss
As of press time, 400,022 people have
Dr. Gilbert Liss of Phoenixville died Dec.

died of COVID-19 in the United States. In 18 aft er a one-week illness with COVID-19
Pennsylvania, the fi gure stands at 18,957. and a years-long struggle with Parkinson’s
In our fi ve-county region — Philadelphia, disease. He was 91.

Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Bucks
Liss graduated from Olney High School
counties — the death toll is 6,652.

(now Olney Charter High School) and
See Crackdown, Page 12
See Lost, Page 13
Dr. Robert Pollack died at 94 from COVID-19.

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