How focusing on West Africa helped music streamer Audiomack grow alongside industry giants like Spotify; 50% of its 40M monthly listeners are from Africa
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How subsea internet cables off West Africa fell into a nearly 3,000-foot canyon in March 2024, causing major disruptions, and a look at efforts to repair them
In a wireless world, it is easy to forget the all-too-real cables that snake across the turbulent ocean floor. Until they snap.
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa
WIRED reports: — “More than 200,000 people in Southeast Asia have been forced to run online scams …
Researchers: financial sextortion of young users on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube is rising, driven by Yahoo Boys, a West African cybercriminal gang
“Yahoo Boys” is an informal network of cybercriminals who have gained cultural clout over the last several years in West Africa.
FTX posed as a haven from tumbling currencies and inflation in Africa, where the company recruited users via glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses, and giveaways
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How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people
In two weeks, Togo designed and launched an all-digital system for delivering monthly payments to millions of people—and made the U.S. program look like a “dinosaur.” Tweets: @tfadell , @cbodewig , @t...
Facebook has partnered with China Mobile and others to build a undersea cable to help bring more reliable and faster internet to Africa, sources say for ~$1B
- U.S. giant starts new effort to boost internet on continent — Move comes after West Africa had outages from broken cables
Utah AG suspends Banjo's state contract after report about its founder's KKK past, suspends use of the surveillance tech while auditing it on data privacy, bias
you should also read his book on police/tech surveillance. https://twitter.com/... Schmaltzing Matilda / @shammaboyarin : Some of those who burn crosses, create massive surveillance tech for the force...
Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading US and Latin American users
many of the accounts claimed to be run from swing states pic.twitter.com/pmpLN7LsEf Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Accounts with usernames like http://black.queen.chloe and michigan_black_community_ look...