[Link] Facebook Github Repo Spammed with Messages Supporting Russia

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

The messages viewed by Motherboard are in English and Mandarin. “The Rakshasa people will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. “I heard you support the Nazis” another reads.

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[Link] Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com

Imagine waking up and checking your phone after several evenings of mass demonstrations. You try scrolling through your Twitter feed, but it won’t load. You turn your router off and on to no avail. You try texting a friend to complain, but the message fails to send. Frustrated, you walk outside.

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