Happy October, hacks and hackers! This month, a new group opens in Jakarta.

Stay updated with their upcoming events by joining their Meetup page, and spread the word to any hacks and hackers you know in Indonesia.

In the meantime, don’t forget Scotland is holding its first Hacks/Hackers meetup as well.

Happening this week:

• Miami is learning election tools
• Scotland is holding its first meetup
• Boston is talking about the impact of AI on democracy
• South Africa is investigating with satellite and drone footage

Worth a read:

• With news from the Kavanaugh hearings saturating US social media feeds, a graphic from Vox analyzing unanswered questions went viral. Open News talked to Vox’s Alvin Chang about analyzing data in a text transcript on short notice. (OpenNews)
• The European Parliament hosted a conference for fact-checking organizations to discuss collaboration with politicians ahead of the elections. But fact-checkers are wary of collaborating because of politicians’ limited self-awareness in fact checking practices, Poynter reports. (Poynter)
• A report looking at Canadian newspapers showed that the number of news stories being published each day has been cut in half in the last decade. J-Source analyzed data from the report and wrote about ways Canadian print journalism landscape is changing. (J-Source)

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