SEATTLE (AP) — The celebrated mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker, who also served as the first full-time employee of the outdoor ...

Joseph Kony isn't a household name, but humanitarian group Invisible Children hopes to change that through the use of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Kony, an indicted war criminal and ...

Filmmaker Jason Russell is a co-founder of Invisible Children, an organisation he started after visiting Uganda a decade ago and heard of the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ...

FILE - In this March 8, 2012, file photo a box full to the brim with KONY posters is seen at the Invisible Children Movement offices in San Diego, where workers monitor the social media impact of ...

The KONY 2012 campaign, intended to make the African warlord Joseph Kony known worldwide, has been faced with some particularly strong criticisms. On CNN last night, one of Kony’s victims came out ...

The success of the Kony 2012 campaign against Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony of Uganda is forcing to the surface some uneasy questions about race, political organizing and the Internet, ...

This is now becoming more than a trend — viral is, in large part, the future of marketing. We’ve seen the physics of viral, most recently with “Tebowmania” and then its maturation with “Lin-sanity.” ...

Joseph Kony is an awful human being, and thanks to the charity Invisible Children, you may already know that by now. The filmmaking organization/charity has single-handedly created a wildly viral ...

Supporters of the Kony 2012 campaign took part in an event called “Cover the Night” this weekend, but it appears some of the participants took things too far. Participants in the event had been ...

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