There Are No Girls on the Internet - Tune Into: How Black Women Tried to Save Twitter
Episode Date: July 11, 2020Join the conversation with Bridget and Shafiqah Hudson as she explains how she outed an army of bots pretending to be Black women on Twitter.Each and every Tuesday catch a new episode of There Are No ...Girls On the Internet! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We now know that Twitter played a critical role in the spread of misinformation
around important things like COVID, protests, and the election.
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?
We repeatedly brought this whole thing to the attention of Twitter support,
and they just didn't.
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.
Thank you.