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Fake ASB account shares racist posts to followers

Vidya Achar, Managing Editor

January 14, 2022 • No Comments

A fake UPA Associated Student Body (ASB) account was created on Oct. 1 and immediately requested to follow UPA students. The account, whose posts contained racial slurs and hateful messaging, had its first post taken down by Instagram a few hours after it was shared. The posts included language targeting people of Japanese descent and Black people. Their captions described the posts as “not racially...

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