Artist scrawls hate-speech tweets in front of Twitter's Hamburg office
by Reuters in Berlin from on (#2YQTZ)
Shahak Shapira and other artist-activists stencil insulting barbs to protest what they deem the company's muteness on offensive tweets
A German-Israeli artist who accuses Twitter of failing to delete hate speech tweets has taken matters into his own hands, by stencilling the offending messages on the road in front of the company's Hamburg headquarters.
A YouTube video shows Shahak Shapira and fellow activists stencilling tweets saying, "Germany needs a final solution to Islam" and "Let's gas the Jews."
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