Month: June 2020

A new social media campaign is calling on Instagram users to spotlight a diversity of voices surrounding social justice work.
The #AmplifyMelanatedVoicesChallenge calls on social media users to focus on the social justice work of BIPOC (black, indigenous and people of color) amid the national protests surrounding racial injustice and police brutality in order to give a platform to those who are historically silenced or looked over.
“The social justice movement on social media is just another movement that has become whitewashed and appropriated,” wrote mental health therapist Alishia McCullough, who launched the challenge with dietitian and activist, Jessica Wilson. “It is another outlet that centers white narratives while making white people feel like the ‘good white person’ or ‘the woke white person.’ A lot of their content and offerings have been co-opted and appropriated from the lived experiences of people in black and brown bodies, which they have used to make a profit and increase their social capital. Often the original black and brown creators are not given credit and are pushed further into the margins of social justice work as white people continue to center themselves.”

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Facebook’s employees are taking a stand against the social media platform’s inaction over President Trump’s inflammatory posts.
Several Facebook employees staged a “virtual walkout” today, where they are taking the day off work to show solidarity with the national protests in response to the death of George Floyd, who was killed while under police custody on May 25.
The virtual walkout is in large part a response to Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to remove incendiary posts by Trump on the widespread protests and looting that took place over the weekend, specifically a May 29 post where he incites violence by stating “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Zuckerberg posted a lengthy message on his Facebook page later that day explaining his refusal, stating: “I know many people are upset that we’ve left the president’s posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies.”
He went on to state that since the message referenced the National Guard, the post served as a warning on state action that he thought the public should be aware of.
Twitter, on the other hand,

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Netflix has emerged as one of the big winners of the coronavirus pandemic. Now fledgling French shoe brand Nodaleto is ready to launch its own version of the streaming service with a tongue-in-cheek web series inspired by the classic teen comedy “Mean Girls.”
Call it a sign of the times: the idea for the parody site, Nodflix, hatched before France and other European countries went into lockdown as COVID-19 swept the planet.
Nodaleto founder Julia Toledano and Olivier Leone, the creative director, tapped influencers Camille Charrière, Leaf Greener and Louise Follain to join its team of “Nodalegirls,” who are shown on a group phone call discussing what appears to be a steamy encounter — though the final shot reveals the object of their affection is not a man, but the brand’s Bulla Jones shoe.
“My inspiration has always been my entourage,” said Toledano, revealing that the short film was shot in her Paris apartment days before France went into lockdown on March 17. A fourth participant, Spanish influencer Gala González, dropped out at the last minute after being laid low with flu-like symptoms, although it turned out it wasn’t COVID-19.
Leone said the campaign was in tune with Nodaleto’s fashion-forward aesthetic steeped in pop

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