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Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! Today concludes the enormous Media Indaba event in South Africa, which you may remember from last year, when it was called Media Party Africa.

Do you know of any Hacks/Hackers-esque events coming up in January? Let us know, because with winter holidays coming up, our events list is starting to run dry.

The week ahead:

• Boston is talking about how to hold Hollywood accountable
• Boston is also discussing "fake data" with Alberto Cairo
• IRE is holdings its regular open lab
• Zurich is featuring three tech and regulation speakers
• Johannesburg is hosting a conference on misinformation in South Africa
• DC is experimenting with data from the U.S. Congress

Worth a read:

• Maite Fernandez, an organizer in D.C., wrote about their misinformation hackathon for IJnet - in English and Spanish (IJNet)
• Facebook and Twitter reign supreme in the U.S., but in other countries, WhatsApp is quickly eclipsing them (NiemanLab)
• In Brazil, though, Facebook is providing a better platform for some news coverage than traditional media outlets (Knight Center)

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