TED: Yoruba Richen: What the gay rights movement learned from the civil rights movement - Yoruba Richen (2014)

As a member of both the African American and LGBT communities, filmmaker Yoruba Richen is fascinated with the overlaps and tensions between the gay rights and the civil rights movements. She explores how the two struggles intertwine and propel each other forward — and, in an unmissable argument, she dispels a myth about their points of conflict. A powerful reminder that we all have a stake in equality.

You Probably Can’t Tell the Difference Between a Bot and a Person

Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. While it may seem fairly obvious to you whether a follower is a real person or not, Carlos Freitas and other researchers created 120 socialbots and found that a significant proportion "not only infiltrated social groups on Twitter but became influential among them."

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