Tag: social media

Recode: A talk with .@deray Mckesson & Twitter’s CEO

LINK: Peter Kafka interviews the Twitter CEO and the #BlackLivesMatter activist

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Daniel José Older and Progressive Science Fiction After Gamergate

LINK: A conversation with the novelist (and with his pals) about the power of diversity in sci-fi and speculative fiction.

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2016 Study Maps US Hate Speech Via Tweets

Recently, the nationwide rental start-up Adobo conducted a study of language Americans use when tweeting about different races, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations. Adobo posted about their findings on their website in a series called Tolerance in America.

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(ICYMI Fusion also features a more focused use of the info to single out hate speech in US Colleges)

Thanks to Iguanamouth, Godzilla Celebrates Take Your Child to Work Day!

Check out Iguanamouth’s Tumblr site via Tor.com.

Below: Godzilla. Doing her job.
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Google Proposes More Gender Diversity In Career-Based Emoji, Such As Women Doctors, Engineers, & Rock Stars

Check it out at The Mary Sue.

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Twitter’s Pitch to China: We May Be Blocked, But You Can Still Buy Our Ads

Click here to go to Variety.com.

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The Japanese Internet Reacts to Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’

Click to read at Kotaku.com.

Cover of The Ghost in the Shell, the first volume of the manga series

Cover of The Ghost in the Shell, the first volume of the manga series

Digital Star Lauren Giraldo to Produce Latina TV Docu-Series With Covert Media

Click here to read at Variety.com.

Giraldo got her start doing comedic videos on Vine, but has since branched out to YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram.

Lauren Giraldo on YouTube

Lauren Giraldo on YouTube

Donald Trump’s Social Media Ties to White Supremacists

LINK: Fortune Magazine Investigates

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Microsoft’s Youth-Focused Chatbot Learned Racism From the Internet

Click here to read at The Mary Sue.

… Was Deactivated in Less Than a Day

Imagine this to be an army of rabid racists.

Imagine this to be an army of rabid racists.