Ride-sharing discrimination and the fate of Obama's Twitter handle (Tech Today)
Ride-sharing discrimination and the fate of Obama's Twitter handle (Tech Today)
2016-11-01
this is seen it and you're the stories
that matter right now the national
bureau of economic research has recently
concluded a study that found a startling
amount of racial discrimination when it
comes to ybor Ivers picking up
passengers the study discovered that
customers with quote African American
sounding names unquote were twice as
likely to have a ride canceled even more
upsetting similar data was reported by
MIT and Stanford regarding uber and lyft
wait times and cancelled rides gift
search engine site giphy has just
concluded another round of 72 million
dollars in funding bringing the total
value of the new york-based company at
around six hundred million dollars the
site hosts gifts that reach 100 million
people a day and serves a shocking 1
billion gifts per day finally there's
now a plan to archive president obama's
twitter feed and transfer the @potus
handle to the next incoming president
the timeline will be wiped but the
follower count will stay the same and
president obama's timeline will be
transferred to the new handle @potus 44
for posterity
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