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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He shared the New York City government’s efforts to make the local bureaucracy much more transparent and connected, a theme that echoed through several other plenary sessions exploring the White House’s use of online tools for engaging citizens in policy and local governments’ attempts to become more open and accessible. ·

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First of of all, there is the the appearance of a new and way-out idea that violates the status quo – such as say Local Food – the 100 mile diet. We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing. A million stories about local food or Home schooling on YouTube or on blogs are still fringe. .

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5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running

The Verge

Conspiracy theorists had linked the spread of the novel coronavirus to the installation of new 5G mobile networks, with some claiming the cellular network weakened the immune system and allowed the virus to thrive, while others said 5G masts were broadcasting the virus through the ether (all “crackpot” claims , to quote the UK government).

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Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform

The Verge

And then the media at the time, which was not the internet media, just the big broadcast media was like, we’re doing it. So Meet the Press started, it’s a radio show, it’s a broadcast show. They’re big radio and broadcast television gatekeepers. Traditional broadcast media or cable news has all of these signifiers.

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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment

Fast Company Tech

We know that China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and North Korea are using bot networks to amplify narratives all over the world, says Ran Farhi, CEO of Xpoz , a threat detection platform that uncovers coordinated attempts to spread lies and manipulate public opinion in politics and beyond. A lie repeated often enough becomes truth.