#indieweb 2024-08-11

2024-08-11 UTC
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[Ros]
Hey Indie Friends, I saw https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/10/gonzalez-proof-win-venezuela-election-vote-tally-maduro about how people in Venezuela in opposition to the president carried out a masterful operation to challenge his claim to an election win. I thought it was an amazing example of power of Indie Web because they sourced the data, and then published independently. It would have been impossible to get this information
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out using through the media. And, of course they had to know how to make a website independently to get this information out. The site has been blocked in Venezuela. Pretty incredible how they pulled it off!
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