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US: #CrimingWhileWhite hashtag highlights racism in American police departments

In the wake of the grand jury decisions not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson over the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown or the New York police officer that choked to death 43-year-old Eric Garner, US citizens are reporting the disparity in how white and black people are treated by police with the hashtag #CrimingWhileWhite.

Politics

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques: UKIP mocked after party officials mistake Westminster Cathedral for mosque

UKIP has been widely mocked online after party organisers mistook Westminster Cathedral for a mosque in a segment for the BBC’s Daily Politics.

Tech

Female presenter forced to flee home after death threats over video game documentary

The female presenter of a documentary webseries about the representations of women in pop culture narratives has been forced to flee her home after an episode examining the “women as background decoration trope in video games”.

Tech

World Cup 2014: US football fans break Superbowl streaming records

It’s official: more people in the US are streaming the World Cup than this year’s Superbowl, so it’s no surprise sports channel ESPN this week reported a 46% increase in viewership in group round games from 2010 to 2014.

Oddities

#AskThicke Twitter Q&A goes predictably wrong: 21 ways to call Robin Thicke a misogynist

When VH1 announced that they would be hosting a Q&A with popstar Robin Thicke they probably thought people would have a lot of questions for the singer whose single ‘Blurred Lines’ was one of the most popular of 2013, and they were right.

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