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Questionable tweets by new 'Daily Show' host Noah draw fire

Questionable tweets by new 'Daily Show' host Noah draw fire

A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new host of "The Daily Show," complete with the blessing of the exiting Jon Stewart, graphic tweets targeting women, Jews and victims of the Ebola virus are causing a social media backlash.

Senh: D'oh. He's got the spotlight. Sometimes, that's not good. Jeez, they're digging into his tweets from 2009?! He tweets about "fat chicks" and, of course, gets a reprimand from Rosanne Barr.

 

CNN no-comments outcry over breaking coverage of rape verdict

... To sum up the backlash, critics jumped on the network’s extensive discussion of the implications for the perpetrators and their plight, with less countervailing discussion of the rape victim. Change.org has launched a petition seeking an apology from the network.

 

New TSA policy on knives, bats sparks backlash

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Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment like souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs onto planes.

 

New Twitter Is About 50 Percent Rolled Out — Where’s The Facebook-Style Backlash?

I'd like to believe that if Facebook changed the order of "Developers" and "Careers" in the footer of their site, it wouldn't lead to a huge user backlash. But history suggests otherwise. Okay, maybe I'm slightly exaggerating, but I'm honestly not sure. It seems that if Facebook does anything to change their site, it's grounds for user backlash.

 

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