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WATCH: Celebrity Jeweler Tries to Out-Troll 50 Cent, But It Doesn’t Go Well
TraxNYC, who is in a legal dispute with the rapper/actor, heads to the superstar’s neighborhood to publicly troll him.
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Trolls Chase Joy-filled ‘Mychal The Librarian’ to Resign. Then the Internet Does Something Beautiful
Online community rises to support ‘Mychal The Librarian’ after trolls troll him to resign.
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VP Kamala Harris Heads White House Task Force Tackling Online Abuse and Harassment
The Biden administration seeks to address the growing problem of online abuse which “disproportionately targets women, girls, and LGBTQI+ people.”
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Sloane Stephens Says She Received Over 2,000 Abusive Messages on Social Media After U.S. Open Loss
Despite the best efforts from these trolls, the tennis star said she’s not letting the negativity get to her.
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Students at North Texas School Disciplined After Holding Slave Auction on Snapchat
Students at a school in Northern Texas were disciplined after they set up a slave auction game on social media pretending to sell their Black classmates. The incident took place in the Aledo Independent School District, where students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyberbullied other students based on their race, according to a statement…
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13-Year-Old California Girl, Victim of Bullying, Takes Her Own Life
A California family had to say goodbye to their 13-year-old daughter over the weekend when the teenager was taken off life support Friday after attempting to take her own life. Rosalie Avila, an eighth-grader at Mesa View Middle School, reportedly took her own life after years of bullying at the hands of her peers. The…
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British Study Shows Cyberbullying Thrives on Instagram
What’s the worst social networking site for cyberbullying? At one point, you’d probably say Twitter, but according to a new study done by Ditch the Label, a British anti-bullying nonprofit group, it’s Instagram. Instagram, where diet teas and makeup gurus thrive, actually has a larger base of younger people than other sites, and people between…
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Melania Trump Wants to Stop Cyberbullying as First Lady; She Should Start With Her Husband
As first lady, Melania Trump would like to be an advocate for women and young people. Her first act would be to stop cyberbullying. “It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. It is terrible when it happens on the playground, and it is absolutely unacceptable when it…
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The Insult And Intimidation Of Black Women Is As American As Apple Pie
In an ideal world, we would spend the next few hundred words articulating the significance of a Black woman achieving rapid career acceleration in the entertainment industry after decades of hard work. Leslie Jones’s addition to SNL, an institution Whiter than tampon commercial underwear, is a major accomplishment. As is her being cast in the Ghostbusters reboot.…
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Gabby Douglas and the Damning of Black Women
In her two Olympic appearances, Gabby Douglas has ignited much discussion, both for her accomplishments and for what others perceive as her less-than qualities. On the very shallow end, we have the comments made about her edges—which, when you have a certain texture of natural hair, no matter how much you brush them or gel them…
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