A flurry of self proclaimed health, wellness, and spirituality influencers

are using their social media platforms to push inaccurate information about vaccines causing miscarriages. 

Read Dr. Gunter’s great piece on the link between vaccines and menstrual

irregularities: https://drjengunter.com/2021/04/12/the-covid-19-vaccine-and-menstrual-irregularities/

Listen of Ifeoma Ozoma’s episode (it’s one of my favorites!): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pay-us-what-you-owe-why-black-women-in-tech-are-tired/id1520715907?i=1000509470950

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Sometimes called “The Manosphere,” a network of sexist, racist online communities are taking advantage of algorithms to indoctrinate young men into extreme ideology.

Everyday Feminism creator Laura Bates researched these spaces for her book Men Who Hate: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All.

Check out Laura’s book: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/13/976379494/manosphere-world-of-incels-exposed-in-laura-bates-book-men-who-hate-women

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Nandini Jammi co founded Sleeping Giants, one of the most influential activist campaigns of the Trump era. But she was almost completely left out of the movement she helped build. 

Nandini's Medium piece: https://medium.com/@nandoodles/im-leaving-sleeping-giants-but-not-because-i-want-to-d9c4f488642

Wired piece on Check My Ads: https://www.wired.com/story/she-helped-wreck-the-news-business-heres-her-plan-to-fix-it/

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This week, Daunte Wright, an unarmed Black man, was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center, MN. Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by police while storming the Capitol on January 6th. After Daunte Wright’s death, far right bad actors on social media used his death to push distortions about the Insurrection.

Text ENOUGH to 55165 or visit Color of Change for more info on how you can get involved: https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/enough_is_enough/

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A Saturday Night Live skit about Black folks not wanting the COVID vaccine sparked a conversation about vaccine hesitancy. But making Black folks the face of vaccines hesitancy isn’t actually accurate. 

Check out the NPR piece on Black access to the COVID vaccine: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/05/962946721/across-the-south-covid-19-vaccine-sites-missing-from-black-and-hispanic-neighbor

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Harassment online is nothing new, but we’ve seen waves of women in journalism being harassed on social media just for doing their jobs. 

Being targeted by an online harassment campaign can happen to anyone, whether you’re a public figure or not. 

Writer and Lyz Lenz gives a practical crash course in how to prevent it. 

Read Lyz’s piece When The Mob Came For Me: https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/04/when-the-mob-comes/

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TikTok star Addison Rae’s dance segment on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon sparked conversations about crediting Black creators online.

For more on Black digital creators and credit, check out this episode of There Are No Girls on the Internet with digital creator Mars Sebastian: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-are-no-girls-on-the-internet/id1520715907

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Georgia’s massive new voting law is a response to lies, distortions and disinformation about the 2020 election.

Independent journalist Anoa Changa breaks down what this means for Georgians and what comes next.

Follow Anoa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheWayWithAnoa

Check out Anoa’s amazing podcast: https://thewaywithanoa.simplecast.com/

Read Anoa’s piece ‘That’s the Failsafe’: Georgia’s New Voting Law Does What Trump Couldn’t: https://newsone.com/4118173/georgia-new-voting-law-does-what-trump-couldnt/#.YGEQW48mUPE.twitter

Donate to the New Georgia Project: https://newgeorgiaproject.org/

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This week, CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified before Congress about misinformation on their platforms and Section 230. In this week’s episode, we heard from digital rights activist Evan Greer about why she fights to protect Section 230. Now, let’s revisit attorney Carrie Goldberg’s position on why she says Section 230 needs to be changed.

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Musician and digital rights activist Evan Greer breaks down Section 230 and why she and other digital rights activists are fighting to preserve it.

Follow Evan: https://twitter.com/evan_greer

Listen to Evan’s rad new album Spotify is Surveillance: https://evangreer.bandcamp.com/album/spotify-is-surveillance

Learn more about Fight for the Future: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

Listen to Carrie Goldberg’s episode of TANGOTI: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-are-no-girls-on-the-internet/id1520715907?i=1000489091000

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