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- How Argentina’s program to give cheap computers to low-income students inadvertently created a new generation of rap stars restofworld.org/2021/argentina…
- For Nigerian engineering students, Indian YouTubers are the teacher they never had
- Endorsements from music stars, who often have large social media followings, are a quick way for startups to build trust — at a cost. Insiders say recent deals involving Wizkid and Burna Boy would likely have been valued at close to $1 million each restofworld.org/2022/nigerian-…
- Replying to @restofworldCómo un programa gubernamental en Argentina entregó computadoras a jóvenes de barrios populares y, sin querer, dio a luz a las carreras musicales como la de @TRUENOdice
- To find their loved ones, the Uighur community is turning surveillance back at China. By @PeterGuest
- Ethiopia’s federal army is currently engaged in a brutal civil war with a rebel group from the Tigray region. On Facebook, calls for the murder and mass internment of ethnic Tigrayans have proliferated
- Call it the “Jennie effect”: After the Blackpink member posted pictures in a gray mini-skirt, mobs of fans tracked it down to a small Vietnamese fashion brand and nearly crashed its website with their orders restofworld.org/2024/vietnam-f…
- As Covid-19 rages across India, misinformation is proving to be deadly. This is the story of @AltNews, a dedicated team of fact-checkers (@zoo_bear, @free_thinker, @NirjhariSinha, @samjawed65) in a country that's increasingly hostile to the truth
- Call it the “Jennie effect”: After the Blackpink member posted pictures in a gray mini-skirt, mobs of fans tracked it down to a small Vietnamese fashion brand and nearly crashed its website with their orders restofworld.org/2024/vietnam-f…
