What Next - How Black Feminists Exposed the Alt-Right Online
They were some of the first to fight back. Why didn’t we learn from them?
Slate News · Slate Podcasts
April 26, 201916m 24s
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Show Notes
Back in 2014, a mysterious hashtag started trending on Twitter: #EndFathersDay. The accounts tweeting the extremist sentiments appeared to be the accounts of black women. But black feminists on Twitter knew something was amiss. So they got to the bottom of the hashtag—and used their own to fight back.
Guest: Rachelle Hampton, Slate writer.
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