The College Board Discontinues SAT Subject Tests and the optional SAT Essay

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IBL News | New York The College Board—which administers the SAT college entrance examination—announced yesterday that it is dropping the Subject Tests and the optional essay section for students in the U.S. Now on, colleges will decide how to consider students’ Subject Test scores.Regarding essay ...

What awaits Hong Kong in 2021? · Global Voices

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Image by the Stand News. Used with permission. The recent mass arrest of pro-democracy activists and politicians in Hong Kong for participating in primary elections has sent shockwaves through a city for which the bad news just keeps on coming. Here are six developments expected to happen this year. 1. ...

ProPublica Releases an Unfiltered Collection of Parler’s Videos on the Riot at the Capitol

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IBL News | New York ProPublica.org published yesterday a collection in a chronological timeline of over 500 videos recovered from the now-shuttered Parler social network app, offering an unfiltered, eye-opening look at the assault on the U.S. Capital on ...

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Harvard Students Request to Revoke Graduate Diplomas from Prominent Trump Supporters

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IBL News | New York Harvard University students started to circulate a petition that seeks for revoking degrees from President Trump’s aides and supporters who attended the institution. The initiative “Revoke their Degrees” points to three Harvard graduates, all described as “violent actors”: ...

Kenya must implement data protection law before 2022 presidential election · Global Voices

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M-PESA mobile money and Equity agent in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Fiona Graham via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Last year, Kenya’s long-awaited Data Protection Act was finally assented and put into force. The Act, whose comprehensive legislation borrows heavily from the European Union’s General Data ...

The Alternative to WhatsApp, Telegram Surpasses 500 Million Users

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IBL News | New York Right-wing groups are moving online conversations from social media platforms to chat apps out of view of law enforcement—or at least harder to track. These apps are Telegram, MeWe, and Gab.com, among others. Their popularity is surging after Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and ...

Gab.com Gains Millions of Users as It Faces Increased Scrutiny

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IBL News | New York Gab.com—one of the alternative social media sites, along with MeWe and Rumble, that is attracting hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters—started to face increased scrutiny from pro-Biden organizations. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called this week for the Federal ...

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Parler May Never Get Back Online: Vendors Don’t Want Any Business with the App

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IBL News | New York The alternative micro-blogging platform favored by Trump supporters, Parler, may never get back online—said its CEO, John Matze yesterday. Following the mob assault on the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, cloud service providers and business vendors—including Stripe, American ...

Private Messaging Signal Becomes the #1 App Downloaded on Apple’s and Google’s Stores

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IBL News | New York Encrypted secure messaging app Signal became yesterday the Number 1 free app on Apple Store and Google Play. It got 1.3 million downloads only on Monday. Overall, it has been installed 63.1 million times, according to Apptopia data analytics website. A competitor, Telegram, ...

How COVID-19 stifled digital rights in Zimbabwe · Global Voices

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A police officer wearing a protective anti-virus mask talks with a motorist at a checkpoint in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, April 20, 2020. Photo by KB Mpofu / ILO via Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. On the morning of July 30, 2020, Zimbabweans awoke to the presence of heavily armed soldiers standing ready to crush ...