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Facebook Responds to Reports It Let Advertisers Target Nazis, ‘Jew Haters’ and Other Anti-Semitic Groups
Updated Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, 11:15 a.m. EDT: In response to a report that its ad system let advertisers target people who expressed interest in topics such as “Jew haters” and other anti-Semitic keywords, Facebook issued the following response late Thursday night: Facebook equips businesses with powerful ways to reach the right people with the…
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Fla. Charter School Principal Under Fire for ‘Racist’ Facebook Posts
A Duval County, Fla., charter school principal is under scrutiny after parents brought up some of her controversial Facebook posts, which some say are problematic, to say the least. According to Action News Jax, Charter Schools USA is investigating the Facebook posts of Duval Charter School Principal Kimberly Stidham after the issue was brought to…
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Tenn. Man Showed Off a Stack of Cash in Facebook Video Hours Before He and His Mother Were Shot to Death
Osmani Munongerwa’s last posts to Facebook included a video of him waving around and fanning out a stack of cash as he danced Saturday night, and another video of him showing off money, jewelry and an armload of shopping bags. And then, mere hours later Sunday morning, Munongerwa, 20, and his mother, 37-year-old Isha Musa,…
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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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Rob Kardashian Paid for Blac Chyna, and Now That She’s Gone, He Wants a Refund
Updated Friday, July 7, 2017; 4:20 p.m. EDT: If Monday’s court proceedings go in Blac Chyna’s favor, Rob Kardashian will have a restraining order filed against him. “Women’s rights lawyer Lisa Bloom will appear in court Monday for a restraining order against Rob, claiming he crossed the line by posting nude pics of her, medical information…
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Can We All Agree that DJ Khaled is the Best Human Being in all of Hip-Hop?
It’s been established that I’m a Super Saiyan-level hater (h/t Panama), especially when it comes to contemporary mainstream hip-hop. Let’s keep it a buck, though – there’s a lot to hate on in hip-hop right now: We have a XXL Freshman Issue with 10 rappers whose combined bars couldn’t get a cell signal from a…
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Watch: Jasmyn Lawson Is Doing It for Black Girls at Giphy
Jasmyn Lawson is probably ghostwriting your favorite GIFs. No, really. If you’ve ever used Giphy to find a GIF of Beyoncé or Joanne the Scammer, Jasmyn Lawson probably made it. The self-described “GIF connoisseur” is the culture editor at Giphy, and she’s been leaving her mark all over its GIF library for over a year.…
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Facebook to Hire an Additional 3,000 People to Review Videos of Crime, Suicide
With the advent of Facebook Live, the social media website has seen an uptick in livestreamed suicides, killings, sex crimes, abuse—the painful list goes on and on. Now Facebook is slated to hire 3,000 more people to review videos and posts of crime and other questionable content, following the seeming increase in the number of…
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Break Up Advice from a Young Millennial to Other Young Millennials
At the top of 2017, I brought in the New Year with a girlfriend and we wished for positivity and stability. Literally two weeks later the relationship ended. Why? I’d rather not say, but what I will say is this, after months of consistent arguing, loss of sleep, and continuous stress, we mutually decided that…
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Black Twitter Claps Back at Confederate-Loving Candidate for Va. Governor
The Urban Dictionary defines “big mad” as “being mad as fuck about something.” It’s a derogatory term used most often to laugh and point at people who are outraged about something stupid. Trump was big mad when a federal appeals court struck down his travel ban. White women were big mad when Beyoncé sang the…
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