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  • Election Disinformation Campaigns are Targeting Latinos. Fact Checkers are Fighting Back.

    May 03, 2024 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States

    Spanish-language fact-checking organizations such as Factchequeado debunk disinformation targeting Latino voters, often monitoring online discussion in Spanish-speaking countries to anticipate viral content before it reaches U.S. audiences. Factchequeado also partners with community media organizations who can share the fact-checked information with their local readers and viewers.

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  • Could a Landfill Power Your Home?

    May 02, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Landfills in the United States are capturing a potent greenhouse gas, methane, that would otherwise be released into the air and converting it to electricity or natural gas.

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  • How a Rural County in Texas Solved Its Broadband Problem

    May 02, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Wise County, Texas

    A rural county in Texas brought broadband access to locals with the help of internet service provider Nextlink, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service and Tarana Wireless. Following a $2.6 million investment, over seven months, the partners built infrastructure that offers download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second.

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  • Crowdfunding and suitcases full of cash: How Gazans are paying to escape war

    May 02, 2024 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: Palestine, Rafah

    Palestinians trying to cross the border into Egypt to escape the war are starting crowdfunding campaigns with the help of strangers from other countries on social media to afford the rising cost of doing so.

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  • Business for Good: HeyKiddo

    April 29, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The HeyKiddo app and educational curriculum allow parents and teachers to access information and activities that help develop students’ social and emotional health and empathy, teach them how to make responsible decisions and maintain healthy relationships. Over 500 families currently use the app and the portion for teachers, called The Huddle, is used in a handful of schools in California, with plans to expand.

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  • Inside the Icelandic plant turning CO2 into rocks

    April 28, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    A direct carbon capture plant in Iceland sucks carbon dioxide out of the air, mixes it with water, and pumps it underground to help combat climate change. When the mixture reaches the basalt bedrock, it causes a chemical reaction that turns the carbon into a solid so it can be stored underground in the porous rock.

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  • Citec como agente de soluciones climáticas

    April 27, 2024 |

    La Estrella de Panamá |

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    Response Location: Panama

    El Centro de Innovación, Investigación y Tecnología Hidroambiental (Citec) realiza proyectos e investigaciones de forma independiente, utilizando tecnologías de punta y disruptivas, que buscan respuestas a los cambios ambientales. Incorpora investigadores panameños y colabora con universidades locales y internacionales para destacar varias iniciativas.

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  • Inside Google's Plans to Combat Election Misinformation

    April 25, 2024 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    To combat election-related mis- and disinformation, a Google initiative called Jigsaw launched campaigns in Indonesia and Eastern Europe with videos “inoculating” viewers against false information by explaining common manipulation techniques that could be used to mislead them. Surveys showed that people who viewed the videos were up to 5 percent more likely to correctly identify attempts at manipulation.

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  • Cómo han logrado las instituciones canarias rendir cuentas en lugar de ocultarlas

    April 25, 2024 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain, Canary Islands

    El Comisionado de Transparencia de Canarias ha conseguido en menos de seis años que la totalidad de sus instituciones públicas (345) y la mayoría de las entidades privadas (2.700) se sometan voluntariamente a su sistema de autoevaluación.

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  • Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts

    April 22, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    The startup Ichthion created a system that skims plastic off of rivers in Ecuador to prevent it from reaching the ocean. A floating barrier stretches across the river to catch the plastic without disrupting fish, and a person manually guides the pollution onto the shore where it’s sorted for recycling.

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