5 More Reasons to Hate the Phone Company [View all]

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Alternate title: How to tear apart a poor village in Mexico just to sell a phone.

The title of the article that started all the ruckus appeared in the London Guardian, and was headlined, “Language at risk of dying out — the last two speakers aren’t talking.”

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Vodafone, one of the world’s largest telecoms, saw a public relations miracle in the making: Telecommunications company reunites some old neighbors, as telecommunication companies do, and by doing so saves a dying language for posterity.

None of it was true. So Vodafone paid off a town to pretend it was.

Full article at Medium