#07 How #BlackLivesMatter is playing out online
[Aired 10:30AM Saturday June 6 2020]
For this week’s episode of Start Making Sense we’re rounding up the latest news around global Black Lives Matter protests and shining a light on Indigenous deaths in custody; Twitter taking on Trump while Zuckerberg takes a step back; the unhelpfulness of those black Instagram tiles; and why the myth of antifa lives on across mainstream and social media.
Presented by Miles Herbert and Cheyne Anderson
Further reading:
Amy McQuire, Substack: We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country
Jane Lytvynenko & Craig Silverman, Buzzfeed: We’re keeping a running list of hoaxes and misleading posts about the nationwide police brutality protests
Vox Video (Youtube link): Don’t fall for the antifa trap
E. Alex Jung, Vulture: The revolution will not be branded