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A Black Woman Reported the MAGABomber to Twitter. Twitter Did Nothing … Again
Twitter is apologizing for ignoring the warnings of a woman who appealed to administrators at the social media site to censure a man who appears to have issued an implicit threat on her life. That man turned out to be Cesar Sayoc, who is now in custody for allegedly sending pipe bombs to political figures…
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In New Rambling Message, Kanye West Blames Social Media for ‘Mind Control,’ Calls Himself ‘Best Living Recording Artist’
After going dark on social media for the past week, Kanye West is back on Twitter to share a long, rambling missive that, like most things Kanye has done in the past year, likely does more to raise concern over Kanye’s well-being than it does enlighten his audience. Much of the 10-minute video, which the…
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Apparently, Ron DeSantis and Racist Republicans Love White Facebook
As the great physicist, mathematician and (I’m pretty sure this is correct) the first person to stuff figs inside of cookies, Sir Isaac Newton, proclaimed in his third law of motion: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” While the only thing I know about quantum mechanics is the early ’90’s TV…
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Donald Trump's Tweets About Black People, By the Numbers
When Donald Trump recently took time out from his busy presidential schedule of golfing, telling lies and lounging in bed at Mar-a-Lago next to a bucket of extra-crispy KFC under the picture of a shirtless Vladimir Putin scotch-taped to the wall as he listened to Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson audition for the American role…
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Michael Bae Jordan Attempts to Use Milk Analogy to Explain His Love For Black Women
We love Michael B. Jordan. He’s a dreamy man with a face you wanna squeeze, but also lick. But his dating habits have left a lot to be desired by black women. Michael B. usually canoodles with the likes of Becky and Karen. And many black women are upset, mostly because they think they deserve…
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Erica Garner Posthumously Wins Shorty Award for Social Media Activism
Erica Garner—activist, organizer, writer, comrade, sister, mother and daughter—is the recipient of the 2018 Shorty Award for social media activism. Reggie Harris, Garner’s friend, business partner and political adviser, accepted the award on her behalf. As The Root previously reported, Erica Garner died Dec. 30, one week after suffering a heart attack brought on by…
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California Polytechnic State University Fraternity Chapter Faces Backlash Over Blackface Photo
These frats are really a piece of work. You’d think by now, with the number of stories featured and the number of college students disciplined for racist, stereotypical parties and/or blackface, someone somewhere would get the memo…but nah. Instead, members of California Polytechnic State University’s Lambda Chi Alpha are facing intense scrutiny after a particularly…
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Things About You That No One Actually Gives a Shit About, Ranked
15. Your dreams (and not like your hopes and dreams and shit—people should care about those—but the dream you had last night about clowns and chicken-fried tofu. No one cares). 14. Your unsolicited dating preferences. 13. Your parenting advice if you’ve never had children and your marriage advice if you’ve never been married (also, it…
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Government Confirms That It’s Coming After Facebook
If you are like most of us, after all of this news dropped about the Facebook-user-information breach, you have been looking at the once-daily site (yes, I am over 40) with a sustained side eye. The U.S. government, too, has some issues with the behemoth social media platform. On Monday the Federal Trade Commission confirmed…
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Instagram Is Changing the Order of Your Feed Again
Instagram announced Thursday that it is once again making changes to “give you more control over your feed and ensure the posts you see are timely.” The company announced two big changes on its blog—one that puts you in control of when your feed refreshes and one that ensures the most recent posts “are more…
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