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TANGOTI Classic: How Black Women Tried to Save Twitter

TANGOTI Classic: How Black Women Tried to Save Twitter

Season 2 Published 4 years, 11 months ago
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On this week's episode of DISINFORMED, Shireen Mitchell explored how Black women were among the first to speak up about the threat posed by disinformation, including Shafiqah Hudson. In this "best of" episode from July, we talk to Shafiqah about how she uncovered a coordinated network of bad actors pretending to be Black women on Twitter to spread disinformation and confusion. After tech leaders failed to act, Shafiqah worked to stamp them out herself.

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