Re-posted from The Huffington Post: The JIDF, or Jewish Internet Defense Force, started as a collective of activists dedicated to the noble cause of combating antisemitic speech online. The group stood up against sites such as Facebook and Wikipedia in attempts to get them to remove hateful speech, and in mid-2009 achieved success in lobbying […]
We’re in the midst of an attempt to get the #Gaza hashtag to trend on Twitter (if you don’t know what that means, let me Google that for you), and are learning bit by bit what doesn’t work (and of course, what does). Twitter is an ever-changing platform, so what mattered one year ago may […]
By now you might have seen David Sasaki’s retrospective about Global Voices, or Rebecca MacKinnon’s post about GV, five years in. Maybe you’re aware that GV is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Anyway, now you are! I joined Global Voices in April 2007, about two years and 8 months ago. As I explain in this video […]