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UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Want A Safer Internet? Listen to Black Women

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

The Meteor, Collective Media

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Capitol attacks were shocking...but, to many Black women, who had been sounding the alarm on online hate and disinformation for years, not wholly surprising. Host Brittany Packnett Cunningham tells her own story of being targeted on Facebook—and sits down with media justice expert Brandi Collins-Dexter of Color of Change for a conversation about everything from foreign agents impersonating Black women to how we can all hold social media companies accountable. Plus, Brittany brings you the latest Untrending News. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Lauren Sherman, the host of fashion people. I love fashion, obviously. But shopping for fashion online is kind of annoying.

0:07.0

There's endless scrolling, my size is always out of stock, and I can't actually find what I want. No one has really made this work for me.

0:14.0

That is until list.

0:16.0

Instead of browsing different stores one by one,

0:18.0

on list you can see and shop all of the best fashion.

0:22.0

List is the secret shopping weapon now used by all my most stylish, cool, and in-the-no friends.

0:29.0

Don't shop around. Join 200 million fashion shoppers, me on list.com that's

0:35.2

y st or download the list app on the app store today. Hey y'all it's Brittany. I got to say on the surface the past few weeks have at least felt a bit

0:59.4

calmer since a certain twice impeached somebody got kicked off of social media.

1:06.0

But still after all the online hate and disinformation and incitement of white supremacist violence,

1:12.0

it is clear that big tech is long overdue for a

1:16.2

real reckoning. Sure, social media has been a force for much good. I mean, it has helped

1:21.9

promote black voices. Ferguson was the most used

1:25.7

hashtag in the first 10 years of Twitter. Social media has allowed me to connect with

1:30.6

y'all and us with one another but it's also empowered legions of

1:35.5

regular old everyday racist to wage a war against us. I personally haven't felt

1:41.6

safe online for years.

1:44.0

Okay, so story time, back in 2016, I started to get really strange messages on Facebook

1:51.0

from a former high school classmate of mine.

1:54.0

He is white.

1:55.0

Clearly, I'm not.

1:56.0

And his notes were really aggressive

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