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La política exterior de las compañías tecnológicas hacia Afganistán
La caída de Kabul mostró que un puñado de ejecutivos, quienes no son funcionarios electos, tienen un papel clave en asuntos globales. Source
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How the Taliban Can Use Social Media to Tame Afghanistan
Last Friday, when Taliban forces took the key city of Herat, they distributed images and videos of militia leaders posing with Ismail Khan, a well-known local commander and Taliban opponent, showing him unrestrained and appearing […]
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Taliban Ramp Up on Social Media, Defying Bans by the Platforms
More than 100 new official or pro-Taliban accounts and pages have surfaced on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, despite a ban on the group by the sites. Source
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Tech Companies’ Afghanistan Foreign Policy
As we have seen with the fall of Kabul, a handful of unelected tech executives play a big role in high-stakes global affairs. Source
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‘I Forget About the World:’ Afghan Youth Find Escape in a Video Game
KABUL, Afghanistan — Rifle fire, hurried footsteps and distant explosions. The rat-a-tat of a firefight. Cars mangled from grenades. The young man was transfixed. It could have been any day in Kabul, where targeted assassinations, […]
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A.I. Is Making It Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How.
I love that I can unlock my phone with my face, and that Google can predict what I’m thinking. And that Amazon knows exactly what I need. It’s great that I don’t have to hail […]
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‘In Afghanistan, We Laugh Differently’
HERAT, Afghanistan — A 2017 wall calendar dangled from a nail over Kawsar Roshan’s bed on the otherwise blank wall of her room. “Best year for me” she had written, in curly script, above aerial […]