Pepe the Frog added to online hate symbol database
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#1W8W2)
The Anti-Defamation League has included the cartoon to its Hate on Display list after it was adopted by white supremacists this year
Pepe the Frog, a green frog with red lips created by cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005, has been labelled an "online hate symbol" by the Anti-Defamation League after his adoption as an icon of the white supremacist movement.
"Images of the frog, variously portrayed with a Hitler-like moustache, wearing a yarmulke or a Klan hood, have proliferated in recent weeks in hateful messages aimed at Jewish and other users on Twitter," the ADL said, explaining its decision to add the meme to its online Hate on Display database.
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