The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 23, 2024

And with the exception of one New Jersey legislator, who sponsored the initial law, New Jersey state officials won’t comment, either. Other states, including California, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho and Maryland, have either passed or are considering a patchwork of similar laws, with varying levels of exemptions for nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . It will come up in their feed either on Instagram, or Facebook, or even on LinkedIn, and then they will start to comment, or like, or share, or do some of that engagement.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A movement supporting Trump’s false claims of election fraud and hoping to halt the ongoing vote-certification process, Stop the Steal groups are currently promoting pro-Trump rallies in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia, and organizing through platforms like Parler and Discord.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Riana Pfefferkorn / The Center for Internet and Society). Angus Loten / The Wall Street Journal ).

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Before Georgia, net neutrality advocates were facing a gridlock in Congress and the frightening possibility that the incoming president wouldn’t be able to appoint his own FCC commissioners. Restoring the Open Internet Order would be as simple as appointing progressive commissioners and holding a vote.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Later that year, he said that it was important not to let China set the rules for the internet in the rest of the world, arguing that the country’s values aren’t democratic. Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal ). Talking to strangers on the internet is the new activity of quarantine. Matt Johnston / IT News). Talk to us.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Aaron Tilley and Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal ). The privilege of accessing the open internet should extended only to companies from countries that respect that openness themselves. Send us tips, comments, questions, and conspiracy theories: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Corruption in plain sight.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

And as Adi Robertson points out at The Verge , the idea that algorithmic recommendation engines are at the heart of our troubles leaves out vast swathes of the internet that are arguably just as important as the big social networks, and perhaps in some cases even more so. Georgia Wells, Aaron Tilley and John D. Talk to us.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here are Georgia Wells and Alex Leary in the Wall Street Journal : People involved in the deals have provided differing accounts over the structure of the remaining stake, with a spokesman for ByteDance Ltd., Stanford Internet Observatory). And as Monday dawned, everything went to hell. Of course, there will be consequences.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Zuckerberg echoed those comments in an internal meeting last week, Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman reported at BuzzFeed : “I just think it’s a really bad long-term precedent, and that it needs to be handled with the utmost care and gravity whatever the solution is,” Zuckerberg said. Charlie Warzel / The New York Times ). Jordan Wildon / Vice ).

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