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October, 2011

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Stories from October, 2011

4 October 2011

Thailand: Prime Minister Cancels Twitter Account

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has stopped tweeting after her Twitter account, @PouYingluck, was hacked a few days ago. Here are reactions from netizens in the country.

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Puerto Rico: Calle 13 Reach New Heights with Music Video

Written by Alfredo Richner · Latin America

With more than two million views since being uploaded to Youtube a week ago, Calle 13's new video "Latinoamérica" has found widespread acclaim online and around the world. The video captures the diversity and resistance of Latin America and its people.

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3 October 2011

Chile: With Therapeutic Abortion Up for Vote, Chile is Pro-Tweet

Written by Mi Voz · Latin America

As Chile’s Senate decides whether to join the all but five countries around the world that allow therapeutic abortion, Chileans are signing on to social networks en masse to talk straight to politicians about the topic. Katie Manning reports.

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Ukraine: President Yanukovych in The Simpsons?

Written by Tetyana Bohdanova · Eastern & Central Europe

The newest episode of cartoon The Simpsons went viral in Ukraine after it humorously portrayed the country and a Kiev mafioso named Victor, who, as many netizens pointed out, resembled the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

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Philippines: Fake Government Photo Spawns Meme

Written by Karlo Mikhail Mongaya · East Asia

Online furor over a Philippine government agency's posting of a fabricated photo showing officials 'inspecting' a typhoon-struck street has spawned a meme wherein netizens make their own versions of the officials superimposed on different locations.

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Zambia: Appointment of White Vice President Causes Online Buzz

Written by Gershom Ndhlovu · Sub-Saharan Africa

The shocking, but not entirely unexpected, appointment of Zambia's new Vice President Guy Scott has created buzz online. Scott is an indigenous white Zambian. Gershom Ndhlovu reports.

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Updates from October, 2011

17 October 2011

Barbados

Barbados Free Press is keeping its eyes on the unfolding controversy with former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner and other regional football officials.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

The game of cricket taught diaspora litblogger Geoffrey Philp how to stay his wicket - in writing and in life.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Russia

Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecoms and Communications (RosKomNadzor) officially registered [ru] Twitter account of a microblogger Denis Plenin (@Dplenin) as the first mass media outlet on the platform.

• Gregory Asmolov

Russia

Russian online magazine “Slon” exposes [ru] significant increase in activity of Facebook fake accounts who vote for Putin in online opinion polls. The bots are active not only on Facebook but also on online media websites that allow to use Facebook profiles for voting.

• Gregory Asmolov

Azerbaijan

Following a Twitter campaign by Amnesty International calling for the release of imprisoned journalist Eynulla Fatullayev, the international human rights watchdog has launched another in support of a young Facebook activist in Azerbaijan who was jailed in May. The earlier action was followed by Fatullayev's release just days later and the organization hopes that the same will be true for Jabbar Savalan. More details of the online action which will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the country's independence from the former Soviet Union can be found here.

• Onnik Krikorian

France

Global Voices en français [fr] is happy to see the work of its volunteer translators highlighted and recommended in a recently published book in France, Impliquez-vous ! (Get Involved!) [fr]. Translating foreign blogs into French as part of the Global Voices Lingua project is one of “101 acts of solidarity” listed by author Christophe Chenebault that contributes to “a more cooperative and human orientated future”.