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

The Verge

Facebook moves swiftly to deal with coordinated campaigns to sway politics in wealthy countries like the US, South Korea, and Taiwan, while it de-prioritizes or simply ignores reports of similar activity in poorer nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, and much of Latin America.

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5 Text Message Fundraising Ideas to Inspire You

Qgiv

To show you just how easy it can be, we’ve compiled five of our favorite text message fundraising campaigns from real-life nonprofits to inspire you. Capital Area Food Bank’s Feeding the DMV campaign was extremely successful for multiple reasons. Pilgrim Pines held a successful text fundraising campaign over Labor Day.

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Your NetSquared Holiday Gift!

Tech Soup

NetSquared Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn How to People-Power Your Campaign with Change.org. We’re a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Chepe in San Jose, Costa Rica. NetSquared Manila in the Philippines. December Events.

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NetSquared Events in May and June

Tech Soup

San Pedro Sula, Honduras: Google Hangout - ¡Primer Meetup NetSquared! Naples, FL: How to Vision, Create, Promote, and Manage an effective Social Media Campaign. Mukono, Uganda: Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School&Community. Monday, May 26. Tuesday, May 27. Wednesday, May 28. Tuesday, June 3.

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How To Build Community Using Social Media

CauseVox

Too often, nonprofit social media campaigns are still focused on the numbers game – collecting the most Likes on Facebook and Instagram, counting Twitter followers, obsessing over views on YouTube. One of their most popular blog posts is entitled “That time I almost died in Honduras” and the opening line is “We have to go.

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Trump defies U.S. judge’s order, deports hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador

Fast Company Tech

Boasberg issued an order Saturday temporarily blocking the deportations, but lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants in the airone headed for El Salvador, the other for Honduras. Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned around, but they apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.

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What ‘The Social Dilemma’ misunderstands about social networks

The Verge

She describes governments in Azerbaijan and Honduras using Facebook against their own citizens, employing large numbers of fake accounts to promote their own interests and attack critics. And she found what she described as coordinated influence campaigns in countries including India, Ukraine and Bolivia. Steven Musil / CNET).