[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.
Ethan ZuckermanWhen I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
Ethan ZuckermanIt's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
Ethan ZuckermanCurators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
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