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Exclusive Facebook Data: Conversations about Race

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The Charleston shootings and the emotional havoc that they wreaked were only one of several incidents that have managed to keep the conversation about race going. This exclusive data provided by Facebook shows spikes in conversations on Facebook about race starting in April when Walter Scott was killed by a policeman in North Charleston, and in June, a week after the Charleston shootings.

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