Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, is becoming a home for racial profiling
As Meredith Ahlberg ushered friends into her home in East Oakland's Ivy Hill neighborhood for a party on a Saturday in early March, she noticed that her phone was lighting up with notifications. Tweets: @belaurie , @jlev , @mikeisaac and @kashhill Tweets: Bianca L. St.Louis / @belaurie : “Rather than bridging gaps between neighbors, Nextdoor can become a forum for paranoid racialism” http://fusion.net/... by @OGpenn Josh Levinger / @jlev : “Community social network” @nextdoor, w/ real-name + ID verification required, is just as racist as the real world. http://fusion.net/... @mikeisaac : noticed some of this on my berkeley nextdoor account. how do they keep from turning into YahooGroups cesspool? http://fusion.net/... Kashmir Hill / @kashhill : Everyone I talk to about Nextdoor has story to tell about awkward racialism, but no one wrote about it before @OGpenn http://fusion.net/...