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Kim Crayton 🏢 💻🎙 @KimCrayton1
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

I wanted to take time today to address an issue related to how Black women continue to be targeted, with increasing intensity, online & how tech & its leaders facilitate it

Also, w/o context, ppl who speak out are being attacked

THREAD 1/

#causeascene
I can admit that I have, until recently, spent a great deal of time, within the safety of the cocoon I created for myself as a Black womAn from GA in the U.S.

I've always known, even as a child, that my well-being was directly tied to white supremacy and racism... 2/
what I wasn't aware of until recently, was how intimately connected my well-being and that of Black women was now being impacted by the decisions of tech leaders

It took this conversation with @digitalsista on the @causeascenePod, to open my eyes 3/
hashtagcauseascene.com/shireen-mitche…
After gaining the historical perspective that I had been missing via the wisdom of @digitalsista, I wanted to know more

What else was I missing

Where else in our online lives were Black women being targeted

And why was no one talking about it 4/
My desire to better understand what was happening resulted @causeascenepod episode “Tech's Attack On Black Women Part 1” w @digitalsista & @ashermaj

We discuss the ways technology is being used to target, harass & silence Black Women on and offline 5/

hashtagcauseascene.com/techs-attack-o…
And "Tech's Attack On Black Women Part 2” w @digitalsista & @ashermaj 6/

hashtagcauseascene.com/techs-attack-o…
And this led me to @melstanfill, an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Texts and Technology and Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida.

And this conversation 7/
hashtagcauseascene.com/mel-stanfill/
Now what follows are resources, many very recent, since tech leaders & the MSM are finally telling the truth about how both domestic & foreign entities have attempted to use the voices of Black women for propaganda & to sew division, while framing Black women as perpetrators 8/
* Hacking of 2016 would have never happened had folk #ListenedToBW 9/

twitter.com/i/moments/9880…
* Press Release: Facebook Ads that Targeted Voters Centered on Black American Culture with Voter Suppression as the End Game @digitalsista 10/

stoponlinevaw.com/media/report-f…
* How The Facebook Ads that Targeted Voters Centered on Black American Culture: Voter Suppression was the End Game @digitalsista 11/

stoponlinevaw.com/wp-content/upl…
* Russians Targeting African Americans segment #AMJoy @digitalsista 12/
vimeo.com/308732779
@Moguldom Podcast w/@digitalsista 13/
moguldom.com/ghogh/shireen-…
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* RUSSIANS POSING AS BLACK ACTIVISTS ON FACEBOOK IS MORE THAN FAKE NEWS 15/

wired.com/story/russian-…
* Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media 16/

nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/…
* Russia's Social Media Propaganda Was Hiding in Plain Sight 17/

nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
* Robert Mueller Will Not Save You @gaslitnation 18/

gaslitnation.libsyn.com/robert-mueller…
* Facebook removes Syrian war page it believes is linked to Russian intel, Twitter keeps it online 19/

money.cnn.com/2018/08/23/tec…
Tale of a Troll: Former Russian ‘troll factory’ worker faces retaliation; warns US ahead of midterms 20/

wtop.com/j-j-green-nati…
* The IRA and Political Polarization in the United States 21/

comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/ira-p…
* New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep 22/

washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
* New Reports Detail Expansive Russia Disinformation Scheme Targeting U.S. 23/

npr.org/2018/12/17/677…
I share this final resource from @FleshmanKaren because we see the pattern again & because she has gotten so much shit from whiteness, white Jews specifically, regarding this piece

* White Women: We Must Remain United Behind the Women’s March Leaders 24/

medium.com/@karenfleshman…
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There’s one thing that I can say about Twitter, there’s ALWAYS an opportunity for me to learn and to be challenged

I continue to grapple with the fact that ppl are complex and how to develop strategy that clearly defines where to draw my line

Here’s an example 1/

#causeascene
.@shaunking retweeted @Amy_Siskind, a white woman who caused harm Black women this year & has yet to face any impactful [that I’m aware of] consequences for her actions & I’m reminded of the current #GDIStrike & the harm @girldevelopit has caused in much the same way 2/
Seeing this, I found myself wondering if this is a one off

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Can we really detach the “movement” from the “mover”

And, I keep coming back to NO 3/
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White women, in large numbers, also refuse to own their role in maintaining & promoting white supremacy

They’re all for fighting the patriarchy to the point where they don’t lose the comforts and benefits of relational privilege

#causeascene
* How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Let me add a few more

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