Mushmouth
11-24-2018, 08:24 AM
Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Snell — all 17 years old and students at Banneker High — were finalists in a prestigious NASA high school competition. The trio were the only all-black, female team to make it that far.
But during the online voting portion of the competition, users on 4chan — an anonymous Internet forum where users are known to push hoaxes and spew racist and homophobic comments — tried to ensure the students wouldn’t win. They hacked the voting system, erasing votes, and told others not to support the teens because of the color of their skin.
Ultimately, they won second place.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/racist-hackers-tried-to-ruin-their-chances-in-a-nasa-competition-six-months-later-theyre-undeterred/2018/11/22/08754010-e8f5-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e8782901a8e2
But during the online voting portion of the competition, users on 4chan — an anonymous Internet forum where users are known to push hoaxes and spew racist and homophobic comments — tried to ensure the students wouldn’t win. They hacked the voting system, erasing votes, and told others not to support the teens because of the color of their skin.
Ultimately, they won second place.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/racist-hackers-tried-to-ruin-their-chances-in-a-nasa-competition-six-months-later-theyre-undeterred/2018/11/22/08754010-e8f5-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e8782901a8e2