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News Articles: Internet

Counties in orange are part of a new planned broadband internet expansion.

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Electrical Co-ops Set To Provide New Broadband Internet For 18 Georgia Counties

About 80,000 customers of electrical cooperatives across an 18-county area south of Atlanta will have new access to high-speed internet in coming years. 

February 09, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
<em>Get Well Soon!</em> is an online artwork of more than 200,000 comments from the GoFundMe website. <a href="http://getwellsoon.labr.io/">Visit the Get Well Soon! site.</a>

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Artists Turn GoFundMe Comments Into A 'Get Well Soon!' Card For A Sick System

"We're thinking about it as an archive of well wishes, but an archive that shouldn't exist, that exists because of a terrible structural inequality that we all face," says artist Sam Lavigne.

September 29, 2020
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
A man in a red shirt holding up a large "Q" shaped sign in a protest. The "Q" is colored in with the shapes and colors of the American flag. Other protesters around him wear red MAGA hats.

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How QAnon Is Migrating From The Dark Web Into Georgia Politics

QAnon is an amalgamation of conspiracy theories that have circulated on 4chan, 8chan, and 8kun since 2017. Now, some of its believers may be heading to Congress.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Pria Mahadevan ,
  • and 1 more
A woman uses her phone while wearing a face mask in New York City. With so many people searching for information on coronavirus, cybersecurity experts warn that it has provided new channels for phishing and malware attacks.

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How The Coronavirus Pandemic Invites Digital Dangers — From New Hacks To Privacy Concerns

While online scams are always a danger, malware and phishing attacks have skyrocketed in the past two weeks. Many of these schemes have found new...

March 27, 2020
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  • Pria Mahadevan ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
The online community is connecting in what may be an unprecedented way with the collision of two viral phenomena: coronavirus and meme culture.

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Coronavirus Goes Viral: How Online Meme Culture Reflects Our Shared Experience Of A Global Pandemic

Social distancing has become the new normal. With borders closing, shelter-in-place orders in California, lockdowns in Europe, and the Trump...

March 20, 2020
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  • Emilia Brock ,
  • Pria Mahadevan ,
  • and 1 more

Georgia's Broadband Deserts

A recent survey by the University of Georgia finds that 16 percent of Georgians don’t have access to a high-speed internet connection. The vast majority...

June 27, 2017
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  • Tony Harris ,
  • Ryan McFadin ,
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