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1. Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 07:49:49 JST Flipboard

   Until recently, Latin America’s most viewed figure on YouTube was then president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. His press conferences were watched for 49 million hours in 2023 alone. A slew of creators built reputations, audiences, and careers on covering those press conferences. Now, López Obrador is out of office — and the YouTubers are trying to figure out how to stay relevant.
   https://restofworld.org/2024/amlo-youtubers-mexico-president/

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   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 07:49:49 JST Flipboard

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     Kenya has about 40,000 “shadow scholars” who are paid by university students in Western countries to write their essays. @thecontinent reviews a new documentary, “The Shadow Scholars,” about this industry, which is directed by Eloïse King in collaboration with Oxford scholar Patricia Kingori. “Kingori’s scholarship is interested in teasing out how power dynamics shape the past, present and future of the global order. In this case, she is appalled by how easily the efforts of these young Kenyans are erased as they go uncredited for their intellectual output – an erasure with loud echoes in history,” writes Wilfred Okiche

     https://continent.substack.com/p/review-outsourcing-academia

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