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How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life

Ronson, J. (2015). How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life.

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Year
2015
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    • I'm white!" — intended as dark satire for her small circle, then boarded an eleven-hour flight to Cape Town

      This sourceRonson's reporting is the source for the incident particulars — Sacco's PR job at IAC, her 170 followers, the wording of the tweet, and the eleven-hour flight she slept through. Ronson's reporting supplies every particular here — the eleven-hour flight she slept through, the Gawker journalist who retweeted the post to his 15,000 followers, her employer's public condemnation issued while she was still airborne, and the message that met her on landing: 'You're the number one worldwide trend on Twitter right now'.

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