Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S, In response, many web sites are going on strike.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Researchers discovered a Russian misinformation campaign that used forged documents and a network of burner accounts to spread rumors across Facebook and Reddit. In the years that followed, the campaign shifted to Reddit, Medium, and even the user-generated portion of BuzzFeed. (Cat Zakrzewski / The Washington Post ). Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times ’ digital team. There would be countless Reddit threads and tweet replies that would no longer make sense to future readers.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

The Wikipedia page entry for astroturfing notes that Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar begins with Cassius writing fake letters from “the public” to convince Brutus to assassinate the title character, and the idea has inspired the business community ever since. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.) Why are there so many Boogaloo groups on Facebook and elsewhere?

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