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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. This year Stacey and her flock (I'm one of the honorary turkeys) will launch this year's Tweetsgiving , another 48-hour celebration.

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

Seeing a problem—like the February earthquake in Turkey and Syria —many will act to mitigate it. When a disaster strikes, individuals, communities, philanthropy, and entire nations often rise to the occasion, providing relief and humanitarian aid. But climate change has been a disaster experienced slowly, and now all at once.

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This Sequoia- and Henry Kravis-backed prediction market wants to turn opinions into money

TechCrunch

In the meantime, Kalshi is on a mission to prove it can entice a new generation of traders — both retail and institutional, accredited and unaccredited — to bet on all kinds of possible outcomes, like whether or not Turkey will join the European Union by June of next year, which is one contract on the platform currently.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Hold up — are VPNs legal? Split tunneling. Multihop connections.

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

That has also made it a target of criticism among more conservative groups, as well as any others that might take a differing view of the court’s determinations. Dror at BriBooks likens the government’s proposals to those enacted by authoritarian governments in Hungary, Poland and Turkey.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

Islamic banks are extraordinarily conservative, not only with how they operate, but the cost of financing, who they can lend to, etc.,” But that’s not stopping Hijra from making international expansion plans—the team already has an eye on Malaysia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

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The tech antitrust hearing was good, actually

The Verge

Are you biased against conservatives?) When the Republicans began grilling him on why some conservatives have been banned from YouTube, Pichai said there are more conservative voices on YouTube today than there ever have been before. How can a piece of harmful content get 20 million views in five hours? Governing. ?

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