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  • Try Again, Twitter: New Religious Hate Speech Policy Leaves Much to Be Desired
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    Try Again, Twitter: New Religious Hate Speech Policy Leaves Much to Be Desired

    It’s not exactly a secret that Twitter has hate speech and harassment problems, though the lengths CEO Jack Dorsey has gone to dismiss the abusive antics and incendiary rhetoric that fester on the popular social media platform have drawn sharp critique. In April, he defended his decision not to remove an Islamaphobic tweet from Donald…

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    Jay Connor

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    Maybe Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Really Is Just Donald Trump in Disguise

    Have you ever noticed how when Donald Trump is on camera talking, a whole lot of words are coming out of his mouth, but none of them are really making sense? Even when people ask him very direct, sometimes close-ended questions, he seems unable to answer them in a way that indicates there is any…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Doesn’t Know What #OnHere Means

    A funny thing happens when white people attempt to co-opt black slang while simultaneously misinterpreting what the slang they are trying to co-opt actually means. They usually end up looking silly, and even when actual black ass people come through and try to point out where they went wrong, they willfully—and often times ignorantly—defend their…

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    Monique Judge

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  • How to Get Away With Harassment on Twitter

    I’ve utilized social media for over 25 years, way before it was referred to as “social media.” From AOL chatrooms to IRC (internet relay chat), I’ve seen the internet evolve over a quarter of a century. But much hasn’t changed in terms of its being a fount of knowledge, as well as a cesspool of…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Tech’s Whiteness Is the Problem. Are We the Solution?

    Last week, Twitter said it was “pausing” to reconsider the process by which it bestows the blue check mark denoting accounts that had been “verified,” and on Wednesday the company announced that it was yanking the designation from some users who occupy the neo-Nazi or nationalist bucket of grassroots white activism. The announcements came after…

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    Amy L. Alexander

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  • Twitter: Oops! Did We Accidentally Verify a White Nationalist? Our System Is Broken. We’ll Fix It—‘Soon’

    Updated Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, 3:13 p.m. EST: Both Twitter Support and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have responded to the controversy surrounding Jason Kessler’s account being verified by Twitter. On Thursday, the official Twitter Support account responded with the following: “Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement…

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    Monique Judge

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