A year ago, Justine Sacco sent out a tweet and then boarded a plane. By the time she landed, her career was derailed, her reputation was shredded, and her relative anonymity had been replaced by the worst kind of celebrity. What was her crime? Sacco tweeted the following: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m White!” The tweet could be viewed as silly, offensive, or even terrible (we later learned that the worst of these possibilities doesn’t mesh with...
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