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Racist trolls sabotaged a NASA competition to stop black teen girls from winning [View all]
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 NASA’s 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 contest’s 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 NASA’s 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 contest’s next stage involved public voting, ...
-snip-
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/racist-trolls-hacked-nasa-competition-stop-black-teen-girls-winning-n871121
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