"digital blackface" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002 January 17, A.J. Bowser, “BET’s ‘Cita’: Dumb or digital bamboozle?”, in New York Amsterdam News, page 23",
          "text": "In truth, the show is a farce of Black intellect, and as for the image of brazen ignorance Cita so proudly flaunts – if she is an apt representation of a silly-sassy sister – she's not the type of image Black folks should look to for “unique views,” especially when, comparatively, the computer-generated character Cita is just a case of “digital blackface.”",
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          "ref": "2017 August 11, Molly Roberts, “What white people missed about FaceApp’s ‘blackface’ filters”, in The Washington Post, page A.17",
          "text": "Thankfully, it's a rare in-person performance today that features a white actor made up as a minstrel. But what some call “digital blackface” is all too common.",
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          "ref": "2018 July 13, Bobbi Booker, “‘Digital blackface’ unmasks social media unease”, in Philadelphia Tribune, page 2B",
          "text": "“[W]e have the new phenomenon of Digital Blackface in the tech space,” explained Sedgrid Lewis in his article “Top 3 Types of Digital Blackface.” “Digital Blackface is the practice of non-Black people's claims of Black identity through social media sites and technology. […]”",
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          "ref": "2019 February 8, Kelly Weill, “‘Digital Blackface’: Pro-Trump Trolls Are Impersonating Black People on Twitter”, in The Daily Beast, Tech",
          "text": "“It’s a concerted effort to put on basically a digital blackface,” Shireen Mitchell, founder of Stop Online Violence Against Women told The Daily Beast. Mitchell said she’s been observing these impostor accounts since 2013, long before Trump’s ascendancy.",
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        "The practice where non-black people co-opt online expressions of black imagery, slang, catchphrases, or culture, often to convey comic relief or express emotions."
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        "(neologism) The practice where non-black people co-opt online expressions of black imagery, slang, catchphrases, or culture, often to convey comic relief or express emotions."
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          "ref": "2002 January 17, A.J. Bowser, “BET’s ‘Cita’: Dumb or digital bamboozle?”, in New York Amsterdam News, page 23",
          "text": "In truth, the show is a farce of Black intellect, and as for the image of brazen ignorance Cita so proudly flaunts – if she is an apt representation of a silly-sassy sister – she's not the type of image Black folks should look to for “unique views,” especially when, comparatively, the computer-generated character Cita is just a case of “digital blackface.”",
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