A favorite recent @globalvoices.org story: I love this article about telenovela cross-over and creative responses to digital authoritarianism, a collaboration between two of our contributors from different parts of the world able to analyze together the connections!
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From a soap opera to cyberattacks: The unexpected connection between North Macedonia and Venezuela
North Macedonia and Venezuela, two very distant countries, first met through a soap opera in the 1990s. In 2024, the name of one of them became a s...
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Global news you may have missed from the past week, including the doctors' strike in Ethiopia, censorship of Grok and other tech in Turkey; and a mini-pod episode about statelessness and identity in South Africa, plus fantastic book and music recs from the @npub18wlg...wxmu community!
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Weekly global news digest from @npub18wlg...wxmu curated by me, with stories about Turkish censorship, Ethiopian doctors on strike, the latest episode of the Where Are You REALLY From mini-podcast, and some banger music and book recs from our community!
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