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Hi, this is Navalny with news about
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and use it.
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Why will it be so useful to you? Because
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research shows that
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the average person spends time on their smartphone
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5 hours a day, and for most of that
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time they’re
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scrolling through social media because they’re afraid
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of missing something interesting. And trending
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today is exactly about that: all the most
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interesting things happening on social media. I
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came up with this idea when I was under
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house arrest. I had no internet access,
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I wasn’t allowed to use it, and I spent a lot of time
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in court. At the end of the day, I would ask
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my wife, “So, what interesting things did people post
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on Twitter over the past day?” She would remember some things
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and forget others,
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and I kept thinking how great it would be if
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someone made a proper,
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honest aggregator you could visit and
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see all the most interesting things from the day. And
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that’s exactly the kind of aggregator we built.
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There’s also the main reason why we at ACF
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worked on this.
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It’s about fighting censorship. We want to see
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the real information picture
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of the day ourselves, and we want you to see it too. We
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support and promote any projects
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that help spread information, including
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through social media.
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If the state is fighting social media, then
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we’re helping it. Why is our aggregator
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the best? First of all, everything is
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fair with us, and we’re not trying to boost
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anti-Putin tweets while burying
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pro-Putin ones. Second, we use
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a special algorithm that doesn’t
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allow bots to artificially inflate results. And
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third, all our rankings of
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users are based not on
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the number of followers, because you
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might have 5 million of them, but in reality
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no one reads you, but on how
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popular the content you posted was over
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the last 30 days. On trending today
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right now, you can find the most popular posts on
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Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram. We ourselves
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have been using this service for the last couple
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of months in test mode.
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We really like it, and I hope you will too.
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