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What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it?

Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Perhaps you posted that meme of supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on “America’s Next Top Model” (“I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!”). Or maybe you’ve simply posted popular GIFs, such as the one of NBA great Michael Jordan crying, or of drag queen RuPaul declaring, “Guuuurl…”

If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass. But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.

You may be wearing “digital blackface.”

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Rupert Murdoch admitted during a sworn deposition that top personalities at Fox News promoted a baseless narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, according to a recent filing in a voting machine company’s billion-dollar lawsuit against the network.

The chair of the right-wing media empire said that hosts including Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro “endorsed at times this false notion of a stolen election,” claims that the former president and his allies continue to amplify as he seeks re-election to office in 2024.

“I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight,” Mr Murdoch said, according to court documents.

His remarks follow a revealing 192-page filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6bn defamation lawsuit against the network, a bombshell document that compiles testimony and messages from Fox News employees that piece together how the network aired evidence-free claims about election “irregularities” to keep viewers enthralled with conspiracy theories against their own private admissions that, in their words, were “nonsense” and “bull****”.

But if they didn't keep up the lies, Sean Hannity discussed the damage a competitor could really do to Fox News, describing it as a potentially “serious problem.”

“That could happen,” Tucker Carlson replied.

The hosts were so alarmed by Newsmax’s rise, they were enraged when their colleague, FOX White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, tweeted a mere fact check of Trump’s election lies.

“Please get her fired,” Carlson told Hannity. “Seriously What the f**k? I’m actually shocked. It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.”

Murdoch agreed that “it is not red or blue, it is green,” according to the court documents.

LINK: Rupert Murdoch admits Fox News stars ‘endorsed’ bogus election fraud claims

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Donald Trump Jr poked fun at his father by sharing a meme that depicts him as a giant balloon baby – saying it is 'funny'.

The 45-year-old retweeted the picture of the Trump Baby Blimp after someone joked that it should be flown over Beijing after US authorities shot down China's spy balloon.

On Saturday, an alleged 'spy balloon' was shot down off the coast of South Carolina by American fighter jets after crossing over multiple U. S. states.

Trump Jr previously tweeted that Americans should just be allowed to 'do their thing' and shoot the balloon down themselves.

After the Chinese balloon was felled, he retweeted the picture of his father's likeness as an angry baby – complete with a cell phone.

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