Social media’s racial bias problem

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Social media has a problem with racism, and it knows it. But as social media giants like Facebook and Twitter promise to make things better, their users still have to deal with the consequences, whether that’s being exposed to racist trolls or having their content unfairly flagged. Today on Recode Daily we are talking about two recent events that highlight these problems: the European soccer championship and a recent accusation that Black creators are being censored on TikTok. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) explains. References: Read Shirin’s story about the Euro 2020 championship here. And her story about Tiktok’s algorithm here. Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn about on Recode Daily? Send your requests and questions to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode was made by: Host: Rani Molla (@ranimolla) Producer: Sofi LaLonde (@sofilalonde) Engineer: Paul Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Social media has a problem with racism and it knows it.
0:41.0	But if social media giants like Facebook and Twitter promise to make things better,
0:44.0	its users have to deal with the consequences, whether that's being exposed to racist trolls
0:48.0	or having your content unfairly flagged.
0:50.0	Today on Rico Daily, we're talking about two recent events that highlight these problems.
0:54.0	The European soccer championship and a recent accusation that black creators are being censored on TikTok.
0:59.0	Shrine Gaffari, senior sports reporter at Recode, is here to explain what's happening.
1:09.0	Hey, Shrine.
1:10.0	Hey, Ronnie.
1:11.0	I am the furthest thing from a sports reporter.
1:13.0	Sports.
1:14.0	Horrible sports, awful.
1:15.0	But I can tell you about social media and sports.
1:17.0	All right, fine.
1:18.0	So England's soccer team lost Italy and finals.
1:21.0	There's a big loss.
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