Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. The anti remix message: The exhibition policy on photos: no photos are allowed in the exhibit.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). What many businesses (and nonprofits) don't realize is that Federal law doesn't protect commercial accounts the same way it protects personal accounts. What is your bank doing to protect you?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook, noted Facebook's involvement after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, as well as after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, explaining how the platform is educating the public and letting them know how they can help. Frequently, they are simply bystanders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Los Angeles Times was the first to report on the lawsuit). ” I reached out to a few experts to get their take and one of the more interesting ones was from Matthew Wansley, former general counsel of nuTonomy (which Aptiv acquired) and a law professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in New York.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

We shared that distinction with big players like American Honda Motor, Frito-Lay, Lockheed Martin, and the Los Angeles Zoo. Both of those laws passed and are now in effect. Change has to happen on a broad policy level, but the policy invariably emerges around the grassroots groundswell.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

law enforcement agencies have been expanding their use of surveillance drones. Many local police departments like the one in Los Angeles are experimenting with them. Foreign Policy magazine's Predators for Peace Drones is a short history of humanitarian drones. The FBI and other U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger signed the California State Divestment Bill into law, and from there Adam took the campaign nationally. This all started with one guy in Los Angeles thinking, "I have to do something.". We sat down at the table with Senator Feinstein's foreign policy legislative assistant, and I gave the spiel.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Digital Marketing Conferences (DIGIMARCON) / Los Angeles, CA / $897.

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Futurism

MARCH 19, 2025

In May of 2024, she had a n altercation with a belligerent rider who refused to follow Californias and Ubers child safety seat laws. A former driver in the San Francisco Bay Areanamed April Granado says she averaged well over 50 hours of work per week, notching over 3,000 Uber rides in her first year alone. million Uber drivers worldwide.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 9, 2025

Kebede, a first-generation Ethiopian American from Los Angeles, spent five years touring with Hamilton, most recently in the role of Angelica Schuyler. A career takes a turn Kebede graduated from Occidental College in 2016 with a double major of diplomacy & world affairs and politics, intending on a career in law or public policy.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

On its face, Apple’s policy enforcement here feels arbitrary and capricious — and, I suspect, it may become part of the antitrust investigations now underway against the company. There’s zero impetus on Apple to lower prices, stop being abusive, or even enforce their own policies with any sense of consistency or justice.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai. See Playment’s privacy policy at playment.gitbook.io/legal/privacy-policy. legal/privacy-policy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Eva Rodriguez has earnedminimum wage at a Subway franchise in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles for more than a decade. Only last year did she learn that she didnt have to labor under those conditionsa revelation that led her to accuse the franchises owner of violating numerous labor laws. The Washington, D.C.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Taur , for example, is a British company that has just launched operations in Los Angeles , in large part because the U.K. They just need to get the policy to align with demand. Divergent Technologies , a Los Angeles-based manufacturing startup, raised $160 million in a Series C funding round. In the U.S.,

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

This dynamic was captured beautifully on Wednesday in a story in the Wall Street Journal that charts the company’s ever-evolving content policies, which have grudgingly adjusted over the past several months to welcome such previously verboten content as political protests, MAGA hats, “more than two inches of cleavage,” and. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. But they have vastly different reasons for why they think the law must change. Adi Robertson / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

As Julia Alexander explained at The Verge , the bans were made possible by an update to its policies in June 2019 disallowing hate speech. Why did it take a full year to enforce this policy? Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent. Sara Fischer / Axios ).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

The 2023 ruling effectively prohibited affirmative action policies that were long used to raise the number of Black, Hispanic, and other underrepresented minority students on American campuses. “We continue to be committed to fulfilling our obligations under the law.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Just yesterday, Los Angeles county said stay-at-home orders would likely continue through August , albeit with some restrictions lifted. In an open letter posted by Brian Huseman, Amazon’s VP of public policy, the company highlights its own ongoing efforts to try to crack down on price gouging. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Makena Kelly caught a key exchange at The Verge : Amazon has a policy barring the practice, but lawmakers like Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) focused in on the company’s enforcement of that policy. Bezos highlighted the company’s policy banning the practice, but said, “I can’t guarantee you that that policy has never been violated.”

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security have rescinded a policy that would require international students to take in-person classes in order to remain in the US. The agencies reached an agreement with Harvard and MIT, who filed a lawsuit on July 8th over the policy. Monica Chin / The Verge ).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

On a gray March afternoon at the Port of Los Angeles, the largest in the U.S., The landmark climate law championed by former President Joe Biden earmarked $3 billion to boost those efforts. Some of the ships, rather than burning diesel to sustain operations as they sit in harbor , plug into electricity instead.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We believe all companies should disclose their algorithms, moderation policies, and data flows to regulators,” then-TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said at the time. “We Eventually the transparency center will be a physical location that invited guests can visit, likely both in Los Angeles and in Washington, DC. Sarah Frier / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

For example, on July 5th, when the top CrowdTangle links came from Franklin Graham, Ben Shapiro, and Breitbart, the links with the most reach came from the Los Angeles Times , MSNBC, and something called Ranker.com (“the weirdest small towns in the United States”). Donie O’Sullivan and Marshall Cohen / CNN). Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

And the president signed it, reports Chris Megerian at the Los Angeles Times : The order directs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to request new regulations from the Federal Communications Commission to determine whether a social media company is acting “in good faith” to moderate content. . | Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

One possibility might be a Glass-Steagall law for tech platforms, which would prohibit them them from running a platform and competing on it at the same time. says its policy “is the opposite of the allegations in the complaint.” Tracy Brown / Los Angeles Times ). David McLaughlin / Bloomberg). General Electric Co.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times ). He said “big action” would follow.

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