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Weekly Round Up #46: Racism on social media, Netflix in Africa, CES and Twitter’s 10K characters
Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days.
This week on BurnCast, in our very first podcast for the year 2016, Stuart Thomas talks to Gearburn Editor Andy Walker about the recent racism rows on the South African Twitter streets, Netflix coming to South Africa and other 130 African countries, CES and Twitter’s 10K characters.
Read more below:
Estate agent calls black people ‘monkeys’ in racist Facebook post
This viral Facebook post is the perfect shutdown to SA’s beach racists
#PennySparrow: Twitter isn’t buying estate agent’s half-baked apology
Standard Bank economist in hot water over racist tweet
Prominent tech ed Duncan McLeod caught up in racist social media row, charges laid [Update]
Twitter explores 10k character limit
Netflix officially live in SA at $7.99 a month
Netflix arrives in SA: should you make the switch from the US version?
