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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…
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Outrage, Condolences After Santa Monica College Shooting
The death toll currently stands at five after a shooting spree at Santa Monica College in California. The campus was put on lockdown Friday night after shots were fired in a classroom. The rampage reportedly began, however, at a Santa Monica residence and ended on the campus, with the gunman randomly firing at people along…
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The Internet Is Getting Everyone Fired
(The Root) — There must be something in the air, because people are getting fired left and right thanks to social media. Here’s a quick roundup of who got fired this week. A prosecutor in Ohio was fired after he admitted to Facebook-chatting with a witness in a case in an attempt to get her…
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It's Prince Day! How Will You Celebrate?
(The Root) — Merry Princemas! The mighty Purple One celebrates his 346th 55th birthday today, and he doesn’t look a day over 26, hip replacement and all. Despite the government’s apparent uninterest in declaring Prince’s birthday a national holiday — and the fact that, as a Jehovah’s Witness, he doesn’t celebrate it himself — Twitter…
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Twitter's Terrorism Buzzwords
(The Root) — What do you talk about most on Twitter? Your love of Subway sandwiches? Painful gas and bloating? The pork shoulder you caught on special at Target? Be careful — phrases as innocuous as those could get you put on a terrorist watch list. The Department of Homeland Security recently released a list…
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Touch Her Hair, but Stay Away From Mine
(The Root) — If you’re in New York City anytime Thursday or Friday, drop by Union Square to experience “You Can Touch My Hair,” a public art exhibit sponsored by the website Un’ruly, “a place for black hair.” As part of the exhibit, “strangers from all walks of life will have the welcomed opportunity to…