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NAACP mounts Facebook boycott amid reports of discrimination
NAACP mounts Facebook boycott amid reports of discrimination
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is urging a boycott of Facebook today after two new reports show Russian trolls specifically targeted black communities on the platform during the 2016 election. The reports (from Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project and cybersecurity firm New Knowledge) confirm previous suspicions of Russian meddling in the Uni
OPINION: Like the 2016 election, expect the unexpected in Trump-era punk
OPINION: Like the 2016 election, expect the unexpected in Trump-era punk
As the news reported that Donald Trump would be the president-elect in 2016, I noticed a “consolation prize” narrative appear in my social media feeds. The sentiment prevalent in many aging liberals was that Trump and the “alt-right” may have won, but at least we’ll see a return to the urgent Reagan-Era punk that defined the movement. There are many problems wit ...