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Despite a pledge to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion, social media giant Twitter employs just 49 Black people out of a U.S. workforce of 2,910, The Guardian reports.

That comes out to 1.7 percent of Twitter’s U.S. staff, the site notes. And the slim numbers seem even more bleak when contrasted with the user makeup of the site. According to data from the Pew Research Center gathered by The Guardian, only 21 percent of White people use Twitter. That’s compared to the 27 percent o

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