Report: Facebook posts from 2012 show Iran's national broadcaster trialed a US political influence campaign via 300+ fake accounts, years earlier than thought (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
Report: VC funding in Latin America more than doubled YoY to a record $4.6B in 2019 across 440 deals, compared to ~$2B invested in 2018 across 463 deals (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Report: India had 227M active internet users in rural areas, more than the 205M in urban areas, for the first time, as of November 2019 (Times of India)
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GigaSpaces, which develops in-memory data analytics software, raises $12M led by Fortissimo Capital, bringing its total raised to $53M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Facebook's efforts are laudable, but the Oversight Board does not end debates over online speech or legitimize content moderation choices by other platforms (David Kaye/Just Security)
Coronavirus Live Updates: Italy Returns to Work but Not to School
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Inkscape, a 16-year-old open source project, has released version 1.0 of its free vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS (Sarvottam Kumar/Fossbytes)
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