Black Twitter abandons Musk's X. The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a ‘digital diaspora’ in search of a new home social media Article 1959 words, published Aug 6 2023 66 votes
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Crime prediction software promised to be free of biases. New data shows it perpetuates them. Article 4775 words, published Dec 2 2021 15 votes
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Pasco County’s Sheriff must end its targeted child harassment program privacy Article 1122 words 11 votes
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Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter Article 4080 words 7 votes
/r/BlackPeopleTwitter and /r/science will collaborate on a series of panels on why Black lives matter social media Link 11 votes
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Leaving Amazon - Tim Bray (former VP) on whistleblowers, climate strikes, sexism, and racism at Amazon amazon Link 27 votes
Utah Attorney General will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after reports that the founder of the company was once a participant in the KKK and was involved in a synagogue shooting Article 379 words 16 votes
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was compromised, sent public tweets and retweets including racial slurs security social media Article 76 words 17 votes
Inside the secret Border Patrol Facebook group where agents joke about migrant deaths and post sexist memes facebook social media Article 1175 words 18 votes
Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia facebook social media Article 3580 words 9 votes
YouTube decides that homophobic harassment does not violate its policies social media Article 1248 words 47 votes
YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed social media Article 831 words 14 votes
In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet social media Article published May 23 2019 7 votes
Harassment, transphobia, and racism: A look inside Blind's anonymous chatting forum for Google employees google social media Article 1987 words 12 votes
Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women social media Article 808 words 20 votes
Former Facebook manager calls out company for bad treatment of Black employees facebook social media Article 411 words 10 votes
She was ‘white and hot’ in a racist video. Now she’s viral and unemployed. social media Article 797 words 16 votes
The iPhone’s new parental controls block searches for sex ed, allow violence and racism ios Article 475 words 25 votes