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Misogynist Tweets Flood Twitter After E3
(The Root) — The Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3 for short, has had gamers all aflutter on Twitter. But when Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Saarkesian joined the conversation, things got ugly. All she did was note that none of the games unveiled at Xbox One’s press conference featured a female protagonist. The misogynist tweets came…
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Hashtagging Comes to Facebook
(The Root) — There’s now an actual reason for people to use hashtags on Facebook: As of Wednesday, hashtags on Facebook are clickable, giving their use an official purpose. In addition to clicking on Facebook hashtags and being taken to a stream of related posts, users can also click hashtags from other platforms, like Instagram.…
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Kanye's Interview Gets Mixed Reviews
(The Root) — Kanye owned the Internet again on Wednesday with the publishing of an interview that the artist did with the New York Times. With the release of “Yeezus,” his sixth solo studio album, only a week away, Kanye sat down with Jon Caramanica to talk about his craft, his craft and his impact…
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New Twitter Account 'Live-Tweets' 1963
(The Root) — This year marks the 50th anniversary of the year 1963 and the momentous things that happened therein. The assassination of Medgar Evers, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, the March on Washington — many of the events that spring to mind when you think about the civil rights movement happened…
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Beyoncé Wows Twitter in Cavalli
(The Root) — A sketch of Beyoncé by designer Roberto Cavalli is causing a stir on Twitter and Instragram. The designer shared this sketch of Beyoncé in a custom gown for her Mrs. Carter tour, featuring Bey with extra-long, superthin, barely human legs. The sketch is off-putting, especially considering Beyoncé’s vocal love of her curves…
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Obama Is Checking Your Email
(The Root) — Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying, right? From trending topics to Tumblr sites, the Internet has been poking fun at the NSA’s surveillance scandal. The blog Obama Is Checking Your Email is full of pictures of President Obama looking at random people’s computer screens. On its own, the blog and…
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Erykah Badu's Twitter Beef
(The Root) — Erykah Badu has proved that Rihanna’s not the only celeb who will clap back if approached incorrectly online. It happened a couple of days ago, but its epicness will never get old. When a woman tweeted, rather disrespectfully, about her dissatisfaction with an Erykah Badu concert she attended, Badu responded with a…
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Hillary Clinton Joins Twitter, Wins Internet
(The Root) — Former first lady, senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Twitter on Monday. She may be a little late, but in her defense, she’s been busy managing foreign affairs and whatnot. With just one tweet, Clinton has nearly 100,000 followers, but it was her bio that really knocked Twitter off its…
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Mandela Death Hoax Takes Off on Twitter
(The Root) — Twitter loves to send celebrities to their graves before their time, and sometimes they even resurrect people who have actually died just so they can send them off again. Nelson Mandela, who is currently in the hospital battling a lung infection, is the latest notable figure to have suffered a mythical death…
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Bill Cosby Op-Ed Gets Cold Reception
(The Root) — He’s at it again! Bill Cosby would really like you young whippersnappers to stop it with the sagging pants and the rap music and the being poor. Also, get off his lawn. In a rather rambling op-ed he wrote for the New York Post, Cosby says that the problem plaguing our communities…