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NSFW: The tricky business of OnlyFans

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In an increasingly digital world, OnlyFans has given online creators a new way to make money on their own terms
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Facebook, Instagram indiscriminately flag #EndSars posts as fake news

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Fact-checking is appropriate but the platforms’ scattershot approach has resulted in genuine information and messages about Nigerians’ protest against police brutality being silenced
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Online allyship: a broken game of do like I do

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The idea of displaying solidarity by posting a black square on Instagram hijacked the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag with a performative display of allyship
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Quiet contemplation this Easter

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From church services over WhatsApp to eating with family and listening to chilled music over Instagram, South Africa is going to have a very different long weekend, grounded in sharing and caring
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Get your quarantine on — the best in virtual entertainment

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With everyone settling into an indoors routine or starting to lose it because of cabin fever, this guide should remind you that creativity and beauty still exist, virtually represented but there, nonetheless.
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Wear the weight of emotions

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With vulnerability being the work's primary reference, the ceramic jewellery made and designed by Githan Coopoo is more than adornment
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Floods in Ireland: A postcard from the edge of the climate crisis

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It seems that politicians aren’t paying attention to the floods, fires and droughts spinning our world out of control
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​A first step towards the future

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5G, the Internet of Things, geospatial technology and what underpins smart cities
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Video stars: Russian child bloggers score millions of ‘likes’

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Liza Anokhina was 11 when people started recognising her in the street. Now a year older, she is one of Russia’s most popular child...
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Beware the fake news soldiers

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As social media use rises in Nigeria, so does abuse of these platforms
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Folau’s social media in mystery shutdown

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The former Wallaby launched legal action against Rugby Australia earlier this month, demanding an apology, compensation and the right to play again
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The age of the feminist influencer

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One African feminist's view on how social media clout chasing has stalled progressive politics
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Sri Lanka blocks social media after anti-Muslim riots

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Christian groups attacked Muslim-owned shops in the northwestern town of Chilaw on Sunday in anger at a Facebook post by a shopkeeper, police said
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WhatsApp: Cibiyar farfaganda a lokacin zaben Nijeriya

Africa & -
Kafofin sada zumunta sun taka muhimmiyar rawa a zaben Nijeriya da ya gabata.
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‘Long overdue’: Facebook bans white nationalism on its platforms

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Social network extends ban on hate speech to prohibit promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism
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Covid-overflow hospital in ruins as SIU investigates

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A high-level probe has begun into hundreds of millions of rand spent by the Gauteng health department to refurbish a hospital that is now seven months behind schedule – and lying empty

Pay-TV inquiry probes the Multichoice monopoly

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Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

​No apology or comfort as another Marikana mother dies without justice

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Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

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