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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Each country has different needs so the gifts vary: Chickens for a school in the Gambia. To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund.

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African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

TechCrunch

Our vision is to create these feedback loops between teacher and learner and parent and school that embraces virtuous cycles and feed themselves to the betterment of the educational system.”. So we’re not supplemental from that point of view. African edtech startup uLesson lands a $7.5 million Series A.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

That’s one reason why the video is still technically allowed on Facebook — it’s just placed under a fact-checking warning, and will not get wide distribution in the feed. Given the previous Plandemic video violated our COVID misinformation policies, we blocked access to that domain from our services,” a spokesman told me.

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

But the conversations stalled because taking down QAnon-related groups, pages and accounts could feed into the movement’s conspiracy theory that social media companies are trying to silence them, the people said. Instagram is now placing ads at the end of the feed, where the “You’re All Caught Up” notice sits.

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