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

The Verge

An investigation from The Guardian based on internal documents and the testimony of a former Facebook data scientist, Sophie Zhang, shows how the company selectively chooses to take action on this activity. I caught two national governments red-handed without any effort, knowing nothing about their country beyond Google and Wikipedia.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

Each year the International Computer Refurbishers Summit awards a lifetime achievement award. After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. It was not an easy road for Nancy. Coming Back Home and a Challenge of a Lifetime. The Inundation.

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See3 Celebrates Blog Action Day

See3

Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe.

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Malaysia is looking to data centers to boost its economy, but experts warn of risks

Fast Company Tech

Over 95% of the energy available to Malaysia in 2022 was from fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency. ” She compared data extraction to silver mining in Bolivia, which enriched colonial Spain but left nothing behind for Latin America. That’s costly to build in rich nations like the U.S.,

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. of total philanthropic resources each year that actually directly go to benefit women and girls, and that includes both domestic and international grant making.

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What ‘The Social Dilemma’ misunderstands about social networks

The Verge

Zhang wrote: “In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions,” wrote Zhang, who declined to talk to BuzzFeed News.