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Saturday Vids: Jaclyn Friedman On Hate Speech On Facebook

Last month, awesome feminist activists Jaclyn Friedman of Women, Action and the Media (WAM!), author/activist Soraya Chemaly and Laura Bates of the The Everyday Sexism Project launched a campaign to encourage Facebook to strengthen policies about removing gender-based hate speech. Their eventual victory is a great example of what effective feminist activism looks like in the digital age. Here's Jaclyn Friedman talking about the endeavor with GRITtv.



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