The Racial Ugliness on Facebook and Twitter Show America as It Really Is
How social media’s unfiltered lens on violence and discrimination helped spark a movement.
Protesters sit on to of a fence at Dolores Park during a demonstration to honor of George Floyd in San Francisco, California, on June 3.
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In the last two weeks, searing protests against police brutality and racial injustice have spread around the world, instigated by the death of unarmed George Floyd after a Minneapolis cop kept a knee pinned to his neck for almost nine minutes.