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Republican Connected Tech Firm Targeted Black Voters on Facebook for “Deterrence”

Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire ContributorOctober 7, 2020

A database built by Cambridge Analytica, the Republican-aligned firm that shut down over allegations of improper use of Facebook data, targeted Black voters for “Deterrence” in profiles prepared for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign according to reporting by Great Britain’s Channel 4 News.

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Reparations for Descendants of the Slave Trade Emerges as Democrats’ Campaign Platform

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent April 11, 2019

“In this context, new organizations such as ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) also emerged and certainly contributed to the visibility of the debate on reparations,” Dr. Araujo said. “Unlike previous movements, ADOS gained more visibility through the presence of its founders on social media that helped disseminating the #ADOS hashtag,” said Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, who authored the groundbreaking 2017 book, “Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History.”