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Social Media: Not Just a Revolution, but a Voice for the Silenced

Care2

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Can social media actually save lives and create a voice?

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Photos are the dominant form of data being shared over the Internet, mostly on Facebook and mostly from phones (68 percent). There are well over 5 billion mobile phone users worldwide, of a population of some 7.1

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

TechCrunch

If you need to call, I may not be available by phone.” Chemi Peres , co-founder and managing general partner of Pitango, couches the current crisis in broader terms: “The government initially had some great plans, to address the cost of living, to expand the circle of peace in the Middle East, to address the threats such as Iran.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We recognized the need for a messaging and voice application centered around the mobile experience and the phone book as your “social graph” or “contact list” We wanted something that would be “super easy to use” It would be the app you love and your grandpa can use without your help.

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5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running

The Verge

She raised her voice almost immediately: “‘You’re killing people. Qureshi could see them looking over at him, and he heard their voices drift down the street toward him. He was working on their street to fix their internet, to keep their phones and laptops working during a time of crisis. You know what you’re doing.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

The agency has used this authority to conduct a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets. Israeli 2009 Stuxnet attack , which destroyed centrifuges that Iran used to enrich uranium gas for its nuclear program. President Trump secretly granted the CIA more power to launch cyberattacks in 2018. Sensor Tower).

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Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform

The Verge

And then Dieter is going to hold the phone or I’m going to hold the phone and say, it’s an 8. There’s not an issue in America right now where you cannot find some collection of huge voices making an argument pro or con. I have interviewed the president of Iran. And we’re going to tell you if that’s a good decision.

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