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It’s about time we got Afro emoji — these women are making it happen

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 8:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Various communities have finally been represented in emoji form, from interracial couples to the trans community and those living with disabilities. But while there seems to be an emoji to represent everyone and everything, a significant group has been completely left out — people with Afros. Writer an emoji activist Rhianna Jones is on a mission to change that. She’s collected over 37,000 signatures with her campaign ‘Let’s Make the Afro Emoji Happen #AfroHairMatters’ for 2020. Hey Twitter! If you think #AfroHairMatters, let’s make the Afro Hair Emoji happen! I’m submitting an official design proposal to Apple + Unicode this…

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Bloomberg report explains why YouTube hosts so much toxic content

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 7:40 am
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Yesterday, Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen published a devastating piece charting how the once-innocuous YouTube became the world’s most effective radicalization machine, in the process becoming a haven for conspiracy theorists and actual honest-to-god paedophiles. The reason is… well, it’s not even remotely surprising. In short, YouTube sacrificed good governance and responsible stewardship at the altar of growth. According to the report (which is summarised nicely here, if you’re short on time) , YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki and other company executives established ambitious goals for growth and engagement. Indeed, Wojcicki’s tenure began with an ambitious target: one billion daily hours of watch…

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WhatsApp finally lets you prevent people from adding you to their shitty groups

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 7:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


WhatsApp’s group conversations can be awfully annoying when you’re dragged into them without your consent. It’s finally rolled out a fix for that, in the form of a new setting that lets you choose who can add you to group chats – and thankfully, there’s also a way to put a stop to this nonsense entirely. Here’s how you can enable it: Open WhatsApp on your phone, and go to Settings > Accounts > Privacy. Tap on Groups, and select the option that suits you best. The first one will prompt the user adding you to first send an invitation…

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