“The company’s new overhaul will not promise more freedom of expression and less censorship across the Middle East and North African region as Mark Zuckerberg would like to sell. Rather, it will wreak more havoc on online civic spaces in the region that are already strife with state-sponsored disinformation, hate speech, and genocidal rhetoric.”
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Global fact-checkers were disappointed, not surprised, Meta ended its program
Groups in Pakistan, Argentina, and Brazil have been diversifying revenue streams and many saw the change coming.
Amazon launched a program dedicated to Indian handicrafts in 2017. The program now counts 1.6 million sellers. But artisans say their sales are lackluster, and that Amazon treats their crafts like any other industrially produced object
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Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working
Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
Since the ban, left-wing and progressive politicians in Brazil are largely migrating to Bluesky, a competing microblogging platform. About 85% of Bluesky’s new users since August 30 have come from Brazil. But right-wing politicians are gaining support on X
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Brazil banned X. Right-wing politicians are still using it
Echoing Elon Musk, the politicians claim they are defending free speech.
Meanwhile on X, networks of bots trying to influence elections are running wild
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Elon Musk said he’d eliminate bots from X. Instead, election influence campaigns are running wild
In a year of global elections, X is making it easy to meddle.