Cambridge student accuses Telegraph of inciting hatred in books row
- The guardian
This article talks about how a Cambridge student's open letter to the English department was twisted in a way to incite hate - racist and sexist abuse - for criticising the lack of black and ethnic minority authors on the university English course. Telegraph used the students picture on their front page which resulted in their social media and emails to then be flooded wit hate comments that were also factually inaccurate.
She believes the they did this on purpose with the intent of inciting hatred and a target for the audience to attack.
I think this is important in showing how hate can be spread very easily but also how quickly the issue can be resolved or brought to light. Not only that but such methods brings light to other issues that are important to quite a majority of people who are trying to get their views heard. How people take in that information can cause problems as misconstruing information in the slightest can then change the initial meaning.
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