They are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms such as Instagram, Telegram and TikTok.
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Will social media companies crack down on the racist conspiracy theory behind the Buffalo massacre?
In the past, the major social media companies have cited a clear connection to real-world violence as an impetus for cracking down on specific categories of extremist speech.
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Here’s what we know about the victims of the Buffalo grocery store shooting
Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters were targeted for the color of their skin, gone in a hail of bullets at their neighborhood grocery store.
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Lawmakers urged to prohibit discrimination based on natural hairstyles
Black Mainers seek assurance they can style their often tightly curled hair as needed without risking a penalty in school or on the job.
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Three men convicted of federal hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery killing
Prosecutors showed roughly two dozen text messages and social media posts in which Travis McMichael and Bryan used racist slurs and made derogatory comments about Black people.
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Testimony wraps up in hate crimes trial over Arbery killing
Final prosecution witnesses say they heard two of the defendants make racist statements, including crude sexual remarks directed at a woman who had dated a Black man.
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Defendants in Arbery killing repeatedly used racial slurs in texts, social posts
An FBI intelligence analyst is going through dozens of text messages and social media posts in which two of the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs
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In latest attack on Asian Americans, NYC woman killed by man who followed her into her apartment
Officials including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams denounced the woman’s killing as the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks on people of Asian descent.
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Whoopi Goldberg awkwardly demonstrates how the idea of race varies by place and changes over time
In the absence of meaningful national dialogue about race, the American public often turns to entertainers to unpack complicated social issues.
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Whoopi Goldberg isn’t the only one who doesn’t understand antisemitism
Of course the Holocaust was about race. But it’s no longer surprising that there’s some dispute about that.