Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In a post on Foreign Policy and the term "slacktivism" triggered a flurry of e-mail on Progressive Exchange. Debbas who was in Iran at the time, risking his life said, "It helped because I didn't want to die anonymously and we can discredit raising awareness.". Slacktivism: T his term came up during the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. The Source is owned by commercial or political interests who increasingly use spin . The person is left helpless and alienated - This f eels like Tiananmen. They fight for democracy, we watch, they die, we change the channel. Some intuitively know and use the new model.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Dear Sophie, My co-founders and I launched a software startup in Iran a few years ago, and I’m happy to say it’s now thriving. On his first day in office in January, Biden rescinded the ban on visas for many majority-Muslim countries, including Iran. We’d like to expand our company in California. Department of State.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, and Italy were placed in tier one. Miranda Sissons, Facebook’s director of human rights policy, told me that allocating resources in this way reflects the best practices suggested by the United Nations in its Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

sanctions for example, Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine , as well as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Belarus and Venezuela will not face the new, 10% global base tariff. His administration has said the president is always ready to make deals, a sign the new tariffs may prove to be more bargaining chip than permanent policy.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

Currently , the Trump administration is barring foreign nationals who have recently been in China, Iran, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, and the Europe Schengen area from entering the US. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven countries around the world to impose travel restrictions.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Here’s a look at how reversing fluoride policy has become an action item under President Donald Trump’s administration. A report last year by the federal governments National Toxicology Program, which summarized studies conducted in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico, concluded that drinking water with more than 1.5

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A surge of misinformation on social networks, led by President Trump and his family , has challenged social networks’ content policies and drawn fresh attention to their enforcement capabilities. We cannot say this time that Russia, Iran or China interfered in a significant way.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Since his inauguration last month, he has set about remaking American trade policy even more dramatically than he did in his first term. In fact, the Constitution does not give the president the power to impose tariffs or make trade policy. Trumps time out of the White House has not changed his mind on that subject. When George W.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

Or frankly, I don’t believe it’s one show anymore — I believe it is a brand that is about politics and the intersection of politics and policy. He was able to show his judgment, it was a policy, he came out against it in ‘02. My job is to educate you on the nexus of politics and policy. I have interviewed the president of Iran.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Beginning next week, Twitter will add labels to the personal accounts of heads of state as it expands its policy on government-affiliated accounts, the company said Thursday. To continue to help you identify governmental officials and institutions on Twitter, we’re expanding our policy to label these accounts in more countries.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 16, 2025

Fast Company spoke with Matthew Eggers , vice president for cybersecurity policy at the U.S. They’ve got the public and private entities in their districts, in their state, that are under attack from cyber criminals and foreign nationsChina, Russia, Iran, North Korea. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It prohibits “false, inaccurate, or misleading content,” a policy whose successful enforcement would represent a first in the history of the internet. Its parent company, Trump Technology & Media Group, hopes to go public this year through a lucrative SPAC. Maybe regular posts from Trump will be enough to create a durable social network.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Facebook says it will abide by the board’s decisions, and will also ask it to issue advisory opinions on emerging policy questions. He told employees on Tuesday : Over time in general, we just we tend to add more policies to restrict things more and more. The attacks came from Iran and China, respectively. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Facebook tried to crack down on QAnon with new policies targeting extremist content. In July, the company banned more than 7,000 QAnon-linked accounts, but its enforcement policy was murky when it came to elected officials. The office will be home to teams including engineering, sales, and policy and communications. Governing.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 16, 2025

According to a March 2024 publication by the United States Department of Commerces Bureau of Industry and Security, D:5 countries comprise over two dozen nations, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, Russia, and Venezuela. ASML warned that President Trumps policies were creating uncertainty for the semiconductor industry.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

The State Department approval announced early Thursday for Qatar comes after Doha had been trying to purchase the drones during the Biden administration, but hadn’t gotten the OK despite serving as an interlocutor for Washington to the Taliban in Afghanistan, Iran’s theocracy and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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