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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRacist trolls sabotaged a NASA competition to stop black teen girls from winning
Source: NBC News
Racist trolls sabotaged a NASA competition to stop black teen girls from winning
NASA quickly shut down efforts by trolls to attack a particular student team based on their race" and "manipulate the vote."
by Brandy Zadrozny / May.03.2018 / 2:22 PM ET
Proving that there are unlimited depths to which online trolls will sink, a group of 4chan users tried to sabotage a group of high school girls in a NASA science competition this weekend.
The trolls took offense to a tweet that likened the three teen girls, who are black, to the heroines in "Hidden Figures," a film about black women who worked for NASA during the space race of the 1960s. Crying reverse racism and feminism, the trolls lobbied for other entrants in the contest, and encouraged their comrades to go incognito and vote repeatedly for other contestants in order to tip the scales.
Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner, and Bria Snell are juniors at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, and one of eight team finalists in NASAs Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge, a national competition where students research NASA technology then create something new for use in their everyday lives.
On a mission to improve the water quality inside public schools, the girls engineered a water filtration system designed to rid drinking fountains of chlorine, copper and lead, and submitted their idea in the form of a multimedia poster.
The contests next stage involved public voting, ...
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NASA quickly shut down efforts by trolls to attack a particular student team based on their race" and "manipulate the vote."
by Brandy Zadrozny / May.03.2018 / 2:22 PM ET
Proving that there are unlimited depths to which online trolls will sink, a group of 4chan users tried to sabotage a group of high school girls in a NASA science competition this weekend.
The trolls took offense to a tweet that likened the three teen girls, who are black, to the heroines in "Hidden Figures," a film about black women who worked for NASA during the space race of the 1960s. Crying reverse racism and feminism, the trolls lobbied for other entrants in the contest, and encouraged their comrades to go incognito and vote repeatedly for other contestants in order to tip the scales.
Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner, and Bria Snell are juniors at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, and one of eight team finalists in NASAs Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge, a national competition where students research NASA technology then create something new for use in their everyday lives.
On a mission to improve the water quality inside public schools, the girls engineered a water filtration system designed to rid drinking fountains of chlorine, copper and lead, and submitted their idea in the form of a multimedia poster.
The contests next stage involved public voting, ...
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/racist-trolls-hacked-nasa-competition-stop-black-teen-girls-winning-n871121
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Racist trolls sabotaged a NASA competition to stop black teen girls from winning (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2018
OP
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)1. See
todays daily dose of internet. first clip. tears to my eyes.
MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)2. It's good to see the headline NBC used calling them out Racist TROLLS
4chan TROLL Farm
Me.
(35,454 posts)3. Sigh...It JUst Never Ends
A Lynching of 2 men in April, these three girls, two Native Americans removed from a school tour because some white woman thought they were too quiet and called the police and on and on it goes. Is there no shame
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. Of course the trolls took offense
Outrage from the right is the norm nowadays.
DFW
(54,358 posts)5. The next generation of Republican voters
Applying for Advanced Placement
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)6. No life incels
Reason they spend their meaningless lives on 4chan. To feel important and loved they obviously never got/get growing up
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)7. Still pissed they don't have that model girlfriend.
Or, breathing one.
Cha
(297,154 posts)8. News that makes your
blood start boiling
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)9. This is why we can't have nice things.