HOW STUDENTS ARE USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPOSE RACISM. A series of Instagram accounts calling out racist behaviors at prestigious high schools and colleges began popping up in June. Let’s […]

BLACK LINKEDIN IS THRIVING. DOES LINKEDIN HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT? The social network’s tone has long reflected corporate America: staid, monolithic, white. Now Black users are speaking up — […]

TWITTER ACCUSED OF DOUBLE STANDARDS OVER BAN ON TWEETS WISHING DEATH ON TRUMP. Twitter’s double standards are not news but anyway: Ava DuVernay among those highlighting platform’s lack of action […]

TWITTER CDO ACKNOWLEDGES ‘RACIST’ PHOTO ALGORITHM: ‘IT’S 100 PERCENT OUR FAULT’. Twitter’s chief design officer, Dantley Davis, has acknowledged evidence of racial bias in how a neural network used by […]

FACEBOOK CREATES TEAMS TO STUDY RACIAL BIAS, AFTER PREVIOUSLY LIMITING SUCH BARRIERS. A new “equity and inclusion team” at Instagram will examine how Black, Hispanic and other minority users in […]