By John Glenday

Google has outlawed a third party extension to its popular Chrome web browser after discovering it was being used to pick out Jewish-sounding names on the internet who were subsequently targeted for anti-semitic abuse.

The ‘Coincidence Detector’ was developed by a far right group to highlight Jewish names with three sets of brackets and had accumulated some 2,500 users and a database of 8,000 common Jewish names before the plug in was pulled.

In that time a number of high profile Jewish people were targeted on social media for abuse, amongst them Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the New York Times.

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Source: The Drum