{"id":5837,"date":"2022-05-28T06:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/seen-and-unseen-review-george-floyd-black-twitter-and-the-fight-for-racial-justice\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:36:07","slug":"seen-and-unseen-review-george-floyd-black-twitter-and-the-fight-for-racial-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/seen-and-unseen-review-george-floyd-black-twitter-and-the-fight-for-racial-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen and Unseen review: George Floyd, Black Twitter and the fight for racial justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster\u2019s brilliant book considers the history of communications technology in a racist society<\/p>\n

Nearly all the books I have read about the internet have deepened my fears about the net effect of social media on the health of our body politic. For example, I thought three facts from the congressman Ro Khanna\u2019s recent book, Dignity in a Digital Age<\/a>, were enough to scare anyone concerned about the future of democracy.<\/p>\n

Khanna reported that an internal discussion at Facebook revealed that \u201c64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendations\u201d; he revealed that before 2020, \u201cQAnon groups developed millions of followers as Facebook\u2019s algorithm encouraged people to join based on their profiles\u201d; and he pointed to a United Nations report that Facebook played a \u201cdetermining role\u201d in events in Myanmar that led to the murder of at least 25,000 Rohingya Muslims and the displacement of 700,000 others.<\/p>\n

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\nMarc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster\u2019s brilliant book considers the history of communications technology in a racist society
\nNearly all the books I have read about the internet have deepened my fears about the net effect of social media on the health of our body politic. For example, I thought three facts from the congressman Ro Khanna\u2019s recent book, Dignity in a Digital Age, were enough to scare anyone concerned about the future of democracy.
\nKhanna reported that an internal discussion at Facebook revealed that \u201c64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendations\u201d; he revealed that before 2020, \u201cQAnon groups developed millions of followers as Facebook\u2019s algorithm encouraged people to join based on their profiles\u201d; and he pointed to a United Nations report that Facebook played a \u201cdetermining role\u201d in events in Myanmar that led to the murder of at least 25,000 Rohingya Muslims and the displacement of 700,000 others. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster\u2019s brilliant book considers the history of communications technology in a racist society Nearly all the books I have read about the internet have deepened my fears about the net effect of social media on the health of our body politic. For example, I thought three facts from the congressman …<\/p>\n

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