Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News and media critic for the New York Times, reflects on how social media has divided communities and fostered hate.

Israel recently celebrated its 75th birthday amidst internal tensions, highlighted by the unsure status of a judicial overhaul and revisiting Netanyahu's foreign press campaign.

Ben Smith, former editor of BuzzFeed News and current founder of Semafor, got his start in journalism as a summer intern at the Forward in 1998.