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A Facebook loophole is allowing politicians around the world to fake support and criticize opponents

The Verge

Similarly, in Azerbaijan, which has experienced years of authoritarian rule under President Ilham Aliyev, the ruling party used dummy Pages to harass opposition politicians and criticize news stories by independent outlets. (The election of Hernández in 2017 was widely criticized for fraud.)

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Congratulations and welcome to the 2021 Tableau Ambassadors

Tableau

Twelve countries are even getting their first ambassador ever: Azerbaijan, Chile, Finland, Kenya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, and Sweden. Tableau Public Ambassadors design beautiful vizzes, telling stories through data while inspiring others. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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Congratulations and welcome to the 2021 Tableau Ambassadors

Tableau

Twelve countries are even getting their first ambassador ever: Azerbaijan, Chile, Finland, Kenya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, and Sweden. Tableau Public Ambassadors design beautiful vizzes, telling stories through data while inspiring others. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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Post-conflict Reconstruction: Disarmament, Reconciliation, and Blogging?

Tech Soup

Reaching out to youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan, DOTCOM. …Will explore youth issues through the lens of media, ultimately creating their own documentaries, digital stories, short films, public service announcements, and other media for distribution internationally.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

During the week the young women in the program from Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia wrote their own posts answering the question, we commented on their posts and they commented on each other's posts. Here is Beth's post and here is mine. On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday).

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan. You could hear crackberry addicts screaming from miles away.

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Mentoring Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

They are looking for bloggers from around the world to be blogging mentors for 1 week as part of the Young Caucasus Women project, a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). If you are interested, here is the original post from www.registan.net.