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Chad – where social media has been cut for a year

2nd April 20191st April 2019 Josie McFarlane 192 Views 0 Comment Africa, Ban, community, government, internet, Social Media, technology

Activists in Chad are demanding that the government restore access to social media after it was cut off a year

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George the Poet: Social media gives poets ‘a fair shot’

25th March 201921st March 2019 Josie McFarlane 214 Views 0 Comment community, express, Faith, George The Poet, individuals, Poetry, Social Media, Young poets

The acclaimed performer George the Poet says social media has helped poetry thrive. The poet – whose real name is

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Space toilets, robots and astronaut suits on show to lure millennials into churches to mark moon landing anniversary

19th March 201918th March 2019 Josie McFarlane 217 Views 0 Comment christian, Church news, churches, community, Faith, God, millennials, moon landing anniversary, Social Media, Space

Space toilets, robots, meteorites and astronaut suits are among items going on display to lure millennials into churches to mark

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Knife crime: Suspects could be banned from social media

31st January 201931st January 2019 Josie McFarlane 317 Views 0 Comment Ban, community, crime, deaths, Gnags, government, knife, Laws, London crime, Social Media, violence, youth crime

New powers to control suspects thought to be carrying knives are being introduced by the government in a bid to

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Google and Facebook criticised over DR Congo ads

8th January 20198th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 357 Views 0 Comment Advertising, Africa, community, Congo, Facebook, Faith, google, internet, Social Media

A US professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is accusing technology giants Facebook and Google of promoting false information

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Diane Abbott: Twitter ‘must act over abuse targeting black women’

30th December 201819th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 614 Views 0 Comment Abuse, black, Black Women, community, Diane Abbott, Racism, Social Media, twitter

An Amnesty International study finds black women are 84% more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive tweets.

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NAACP launches #LogOutFacebook after reports on black voter suppression

19th December 201818th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 262 Views 0 Comment black, Black Voters, campaign, community, Elections, LogOutFacebook, NAACP, Racism, Social Media

The NAACP has temporarily signed off Facebook and is calling on others to do the same due to the tech

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Blackfishing: The women accused of pretending to be black

9th December 201810th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 1583 Views 0 Comment black, Black Women, Blackfishing, community, influencers, Instagram, pretending, Race, Social Media, White women

“I’ve had no surgery, so I can’t take off these lips. I can’t remove my ‘fake bum implants’.” Over the

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Facebook and its ‘black people problem’

5th December 20184th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 422 Views 0 Comment black, Black people, community, Facebook, FB, influences, Racism, racist, Social Media, technology

When it rains, it pours – and Facebook’s utterly sodden year continues to be flooded by accusations of bad governance.

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Facebook to stop tools that filter adverts by ethnicity

14th August 201814th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 521 Views 0 Comment advertising platform, AGO, Asian, black, Bob Ferguson, Ethnic, Facebook, Fair Housing Act of 1968, illegal, minorities, minority ethnic, ProPublica, religious, Social Media, third-party companies, unfair, unlawful discrimination, wrong

Facebook has signed an agreement to stop third-party companies from being able to block certain ethnic or religious minorities and

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Educate children to tackle ethnic minority donor crisis, MPs say

13th August 201813th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 536 Views 0 Comment Anthony Nolan, Anthony Nolan Charity, Asian, awareness, BAME, BAME communities, black, Blood, blood donation, boost donor numbers, Carl Anka, communities, Death, donation, donation crises, Eleanor Smith, england, ethnic background, ethnic diversity, ethnic minority donors, ethnic minority groups, government, illness, individuals, Jackie Doyle-Price, Labour MPs, minority ethnic, misinformation spreading, mistrust, myth-busting, national curriculum, national priority, NHS bodies, organ donation, organ failure, organs, paying it forward, public awareness, silent crisis, Social Media, Stem cells, UK population

School pupils should learn about organ and blood donation to help tackle the “silent crisis” of a lack of ethnic

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“You are the heart and love of the church” Archbishop of Canterbury tells Mothers’ union Sudan at new Province Inauguration

3rd August 2017 Mariah 1148 Views 0 Comment Archbishop, Canterbury, capacity, Christ, church, communities, God, hopes, humbled, importance, inspired, leadership, literacy, membership, Motehrs union, peace, pray, prayers, President, skills, Social Media, Sudan, training

The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Revd Justin Welby, commended Sudan’s Mothers’ Union on Sunday, saying, “I recognise the importance

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Mayor launches new unit to tackle online hate crime

24th April 201724th April 2017 Mariah 1564 Views 0 Comment Community Groups, Mayor of London, Met police officers, Online Hate crime, Police Unit, Sadiq Khan, Social Media, UK, West London

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today launched a new police unit – the first of its kind in the