The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand. I found a really amazing group of people here in the States that really wanted to do something to help change circumstances for people in these situations. At that point we didn't have a name for it. It started out small.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

This type of documentation is often a critical step in the large-scale data analysis projects conducted by Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) in partnership with human rights organizations. I emphasized how groups can make claims that are grounded in the data and are therefore stronger against attacks by critics.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The discussion about membership of an organization and what it means to be active: lots of people would have joined a group or gone to a meeting without contributing. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. It’s important to sustain that information and interest.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Leaked documents reveal a huge, opaque system At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead. But the group’s ties to India’s nationalist government made that a delicate proposition. “We One solution could be to penalize RSS accounts.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Hotels, for example, employ a large number of local people, offering economic access and opportunity for communities and often underrepresented groups, particularly women. Similarly, theres Amba Yaalu at Kandalama, Sri Lankas first hotel run entirely by women. In most of the world, women are the majority of tourisms workforce.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The company had reportedly planned to deal with the spread of viral misinformation about the election with tools designed for “at-risk” countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Facebook took down a group with more than 300,000 members called “Stop the Steal” that was organizing rallies to challenge election results earlier on Thursday.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

On Friday, the Trump administration scrambled to reinstate a group of nuclear safety employees it had let go the day before, halting the firings of 350 federal employees (or those whose correct contact information it could find, anyway).

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