NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

YouTube terminated five Myanmar military channels from its platform on Friday, Reuters reports. The removals include YouTube channels for the government-run Myanma Radio and Television (MRTV) network and the military-owned Myawaddy Media used to spread military propaganda in Myanmar.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

While Facebook considered what to do about the Russians’ hack-and-leak campaign, a separate influence operation was unfolding under its nose. The Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that the New York Times had first profiled in 2015 , was running its own attack. “It felt like this was maybe a time to break precedent.”.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Yesterday I included a link to a story in Time about a request from the Gambian government to help investigate the genocide in Myanmar , where the United Nations has said Facebook contributed to the incitement of violence. QAnon is spreading among Instagram influencers, some of whom have latched on to the theory about child trafficking.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

But as discussions about racism and injustice light up forums around the internet, it’s clear that the mechanisms companies have built to date are often failing to support that conversation. The networks, based in Tunisia and Iraq, appear to have been used to spread propaganda and influence elections. Joseph Menn / Reuters).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But if you assume, as I did, that his negotiations were primarily about projecting power and influence, whatever reality lurked in the details, then all of this is proceeding more or less to plan. Stanford Internet Observatory). Facebook’s slow response to the threat of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar is the textbook example.

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