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Report: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Helped Police Track Minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore

A social media surveillance program used by police to track and monitor protests in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore relied heavily on data it obtained from social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, according to a report released by the ACLU on Tuesday. Geofeedia is a Chicago-based company that developed a social-media-monitoring product that it marketed to…

By

Monique Judge

Published

October 11, 2016
Politics

Keep America Safe Again: A Black Person’s Guide to Safety, Space and Activism at the RNC

“Be safe.” “Stay safe, brother.” “Be safe, praying for you.” These are the paraphrases of just about every text, Facebook post and social media DM I’ve received since spreading the word that I was headed to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. The absolute palpable fear on the part of black people I…

By

Jason Johnson

Published

July 21, 2016