A Man Spraypainted Hate Tweets in Front of Twitter's Office After It Failed to Delete Them

Shahak Shapia takes his protest offline

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To properly vent his frustrations with Twitter’s lax hate-speech policies, Israeli satirist Shahak Shapia went analog, spraypainting some of the vicious Tweets he’s received—and reported to Twitter—right outside Twitter’s German headquarters.

By his count, Shapia has reported 300 tweets for containing “serious threats of violence, homophobia, xenophobia or Holocaust denial,” and only heard back from Twitter nine times. “If Twitter forces me to see those things,” he told Inverse, “then they’ll have to see them too.”

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