Tag: oped
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HRF Op-Ed: Social media’s importance in authoritarian run countries
[ad_1] By Hannah Van Dijcke Earlier this month, Meta’s Oversight Board ordered the platform to restore a video uploaded by a citizen-run Cuban news platform on the one-year anniversary of the July 11 protests, during which thousands of dissenting Cubans were brutally repressed. In the video, a woman could be seen urging other women to protest the regime…
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Here’s the headline of every op-ed imploring something to stop
[ad_1] Let’s start off with a grand sweeping statement about something that everyone already knows; Russia’s war in Ukraine started in 2022 and changed everything, or maybe about how the effects of climate change are devastating. Even better would be to combine both, to cushion this op-ed in a bed of world-changing events that might…