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Before Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, Chabad invented social networks
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Before Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, Chabad invented social networks. “Today I am in Brooklyn in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, the home of Rabbi Schneerson, the emblematic figure of Chabad, also known as Lubavitch.” In the communications room of the Rebbe's house with Israel Pinson, rabbi of Detroit: from the 1970s, the Rebbe's words were broadcast live to followers in Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Paris “or even Nice”, over 424 phone lines with simultaneous translation. Since it first aired, this report has been shown to every French-speaking visitor to the 770 communications room. David Benaym's 3 Minutes POP on Benjamin Petrover's “C'était l'info”, i24NEWS in French.