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News that’s happening around the world today. In South Africa, there are protests because of a racist advertisement for hair shampoo. The advertisement depicts white women’s hair as good hair and black women’s hair as bad hair. See the images below. The pharmacy the shampoo was advertised at is Clicks, the second biggest retailer in […]
Twitter has just announced the Chadwick Boseman’s last tweet is now officially the most liked tweet of all time. The tweet that let the world know that Boseman lost his battle with cancer was made by his estate. It has since set a new record with over 5 million likes and 2 million retweets in […]
It’s confirmed: the next Verzuz will feature two 90’s R&B icons, Brandy and Monica. On Saturday night, the Verzuz official instagram announced the arrival of the challengers with an amazing split image of the singer’s faces. After dancing around whether or not the event would ever take place, they finally let everyone know last night. […]
Twitter is updating its policies to ban links. Making it harder for users to spread hate speech and violent content. Twitter already had rules in place barring hateful conduct and violence in tweets, but the policy didn’t extend to linked content. So users could effectively skirt Twitter’s policies by linking to content that would otherwise […]
75 year old Martin Gugino is now in stable condition and has responded to the President’s tweet about the events that led to his injury. According to CNN, when Gugino heard about the president accusing him of being an ANTIFA provocateur, “the 75 year-old just laughed.” When asked for a public comment, he only said […]
Michael Jordan and Jordan pledges $100 million towards social justice On Friday, Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand announced that they would be donating $100 million over the next 10 years to “organizations dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.” They released the statement on the company’s Twitter page that read: […]
The Trump campaign tried to post a video tribute to George Floyd and Twitter isn’t having it. Twitter said copyright claim was the reason. On the subject of blocking the post the social media giant said “This media has been disabled in response to a claim by the copyright owner… Per our copyright policy, we […]
Snapchat parent company Snap will stop promoting President Trump’s account on its Discover tab. Which made me wonder, What is the Discover tab? Well, it’s stories from publishers, creators and popular Snapchat accounts. The President’s account will remain. CEO, Evan Spiegel, wrote in a staff memo. “We simply cannot promote accounts in America that are […]
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to limit the rights of private tech companies like Twitter and Facebook, after Twitter placed a fact checked label under two of his tweets this week. The tweets claimed that casting ballots by mail allows for voter fraud, when in fact both Republican and Democratic […]
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that will make it easier for big tech companies to be held liable for what users post. The reason for the executive order is because Twitter fact checked two tweets from the President earlier this week. Under the order Mr. Trump wants to push legislation that would reinterpret […]