Fake news in India is a rising problem. The practice of using social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp to disseminate false information is ushering in a dangerous trend. Murali Krishnan reports from New Delhi.
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Matter: A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It
Served as a convenient excuse for pimping to old Cuban money people in Florida. The symptoms reported by U.S. embassy staff in Havana probably were not caused by a mysterious sonic weapon, experts said.
Y.A. Tittle, Quarterback Who Led Giants to 3 Title Games, Dies at 90
He was a real gamer! RIP Tittle endeared himself to New York not as a golden boy but as a muddied, grass-stained scrapper who had been discarded by the 49ers as too slow and too old.
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How Did Dove Think it Was Okay to Run this Painfully Racist Ad?
By Sharanya Gopinathan
Image courtesy Twitter
Pretending to care about social issues is a lot like lying, in so far as that if you keep doing it, you will get caught one day. The international beauty brand Dove (by Unilever), has made a lot of noise over the years about how body positive it is, and how it champions the movement to accept women of all shapes and sizes, not just the stereotypically skinny women we’re seeing in ads.
This mask first slipped badly back in May, when Dove came up with a laughable plan to promote body-positivity by releasing a body wash in a bunch of strangely shaped bottles that were supposed to represent different women’s body types. The plan backfired when everyone pointed out how silly it is to sell bottles in the supposed shape of a woman’s body to promote body positivity, and people were quick to point out how this could erase some of the brownie points Dove had earned for itself for promoting “socially conscious beauty” over the years.
In which case, they’ve probably leapt a mile backwards with their newest, ill-fated campaign. This weekend, Dove posted a GIF to its Facebook page as part of an ad for their body lotion. The GIF showed the image of a black woman taking off a dark brown shirt to reveal a white woman wearing a white shirt. It’s honestly a shocking image to see, because the second you see it, the strong message you receive is that that non-white skin and colouring is dirty and meant to be scrubbed off or removed in favour of whiter skin. The ad also included an image of the body lotion bottle, which said that it creates “visibly more beautiful skin”.
It’s an awful message to put out there: totally tone-deaf at best, and racist, offensive and dangerous to the psyche of non-white women at worst.
As angry commentators on social media pointed out, it’s also pretty amazing to think that a group of advertising execs, probably really good ones if they were hired by a huge brand like Dove, sat together and conceptualised this horrible ad, and then a boss somewhere okayed the final product, and no one at any step of the process found this offensive at all.
Lol did this even look right to y’all? I mean your whole team sat down and cleared this bullshit right here? How? http://pic.twitter.com/WzsZfpkxAr
— Musimbwa (@UNcubeOthungayo) October 7, 2017
Dove has since apologised for the post in a tersely worded tweet (with no explanation for why and how the ad as published at all), and have taken down the offensive Facebook post. They haven’t been responding to the media’s requests for statements on the issue, so clearly, this is all Dove has to say on the issue:
An image we recently posted on Facebook missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully. We deeply regret the offense it caused.
— Dove (@Dove) October 7, 2017
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WATCH: Steph Curry goes off for 40 points in preseason win in Shanghai
Fans at Shanghai’s Mercedes-Benz Arena chanted “MVP” as Curry stepped to the line after hitting absurd shot after absurd shot.
Climate change action like trying to ‘appease the volcano gods’, Abbott says
His 15 minutes are done so why broadcast his neolithic views?
Former prime minister Tony Abbott says climate change is “probably doing good” and likened policy to address it to “primitive people” killing goats to please their deities, as he renews calls for the Government to abandon a Clean Energy Target.
Bob Corker Says Trump’s Recklessness Threatens ‘World War III’ – The New York Times
“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” he said, adding that “of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”As for the tweets that set off the feud on Sunday morning, Mr. Corker expressed a measure of powerlessness.“I don’t know why the president tweets out things that are not true,” he said. “You know he does it, everyone knows he does it, but he does.”
Dove apologises for ‘racist’ ad showing black woman turning white
Goodbye Dove – you racist clods! You cannot apologize to such blatant racism.
Dove apologises after an advertisement is criticised as “racist” for showing a black woman removing her brown t-shirt and turning into a white woman after using body wash.
Nathan Straus and the Milk Stations That Saved the Lives of New York City’s Kids ~ vintage everyday
He set to work both to provide pasteurized milk to needy children, and to have the process legally mandated for all milk sold. He set up milk stations in poor areas in New York City to give away pasteurized milk, and proof of the efficacy of the program was not long in coming. In 1891, fully 24 percent of babies born in New York City died before their first birthday. But of the 20,111 children fed on pasteurized milk supplied by Nathan Straus over a four-year period, only six died.
Source: Nathan Straus and the Milk Stations That Saved the Lives of New York City’s Kids ~ vintage everyday








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