Files Myanmar Social Network 
The Verge
AUGUST 24, 2020
In this week’s episode of “should the social network leave it up or take it down?” That’s despite potential human rights abuses that may arise like the catastrophic episode in Myanmar, where ruling members of the military used hate speech on Facebook to promote its real-world genocide of the minority Muslim Rohingya population.
NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.
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NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.
The Verge
JANUARY 25, 2021
Signal’s development is supported by that loan, which filings show has grown to more than $100 million, and by donations from its users. At that level, executives expect that donations will cover its costs and support the development of additional products that the company has considered, such as email or file storage.
The Verge
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The files contain a wealth of documents describing the company’s internal research, its efforts to promote users’ safety and well-being, and its struggles to remain relevant to a younger audience. Facebook likely spends more on integrity efforts than any of its peers, though it is also the largest of the social networks.
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2020
The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Of teenagers who were affected, more than a quarter of the cases were intentional, the Washington Post reported at the time.
The Verge
MAY 29, 2020
In 2017, somewhere at the peak of Facebook’s self-regard, Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision of his social network as a kind of quasi-government that sits between social institutions and actual governments: Our world is more connected than ever, and we face global problems that span national boundaries.
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