Tune Into: How Black Women Tried to Save Twitter
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2020
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Join the conversation with Bridget and Shafiqah Hudson as she explains how she outed an army of bots pretending to be Black women on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | We now know that Twitter played a critical role in the spread of misinformation around important things like COVID, protests, and the election. |
| 0:07.8 | But did you know that black women sounded the alarm when they uncovered an army of bots trying to sow chaos and misinformation online back in 2014? |
| 0:15.2 | We repeatedly brought this whole thing to the attention of Twitter support, and they just didn't. |
| 0:23.3 | Check out this episode of There Are No Girls on the Internet on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts on Tuesday, July 14. |
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