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Palestinian🇵🇸 Independent expert on tech & human rights: Big Tech accountability, AI, surveillance, children’s digital rights. Anti-racist, decolonial approaches. Prev: ED @PeoplevsBigTech.bsky.social; Director @AmnestyTech. Board @FairSqProjects. My views.

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Leandro Ucciferri @leandro.im · 28/10/2025
Today I’m attending the 4D Conference in Barcelona—feels nice to join a digital rights event without taking a flight for a change. This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 25/10/2025
Today Simona Levi @xnet-x.net interviews @rashaar.bsky.social about surveillance technology sold by Israel: 🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."
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Combat-Tested on the Palestine’ Population Technology Bargain
Rasha Abdul Rahim, Palestinian tech justice activist, interviewed by Simona Levi, founder of Xnet, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation.
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 25/10/2025
Simona Levi @xnet-x.net entrevista a @rashaar.bsky.social en @ctxt.es sobre tecnología de vigilancia que vende Israel probada en combate sobre población palestina. "Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes" #Conferencia4D
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“Europa integra en su aparato de seguridad las tecnologías de vigilancia masiva que Israel prueba en Palestina”
Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
$145 million won’t save Israel’s image. No amount of AI manipulation or influencer shilling or money can erase Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76 years of apartheid. Israel is a state built on stolen land and slaughter. The world isn’t just waking up. It’s wide awake, and sickened.
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 01/10/2025
⏳ Cuenta atrás para nuestra #Conferencia4D: La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática 🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social. 📍 28/10 | BCN 🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is HUGE. @microsoft.com has terminated the Israeli military’s access to tech it used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls in Gaza/West Bank. @awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same. Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Al Jazeera reporting the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A genocidal campaign by the Israeli regime, enabled by world powers. A grotesque unraveling of humanity, a bloodstain history will never wash clean.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Do you know how it feels to witness your people being bombed, shot, starved and abused viciously and relentlessly for the past 21 months? To wake up and fall asleep to images of lifeless, bloodied babies, starving infants and the corpses of men and women strewn on the ground? 🧵
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Joe Westby @joewestby.eurosky.social · 03/07/2025
🧵Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump. New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
Big Tech poll infographic and survey results
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 03/07/2025
🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't. @ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech? peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Leading legal experts and scholars have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣 We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. fairsq.org/fifa-continu...
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FIFA continues to stall and misrepresent over Israel sanctions
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evide...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Woah, did the UK, Canada and France just threaten sanctions on #Israel? #Gaza www.gov.uk/government/n...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our new report now out finds serious shortcomings in the way in which Saudi Arabia investigates and verifies migrant worker deaths. fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
FairSquare co director @lynchj.bsky.social in conversation with the BBC Today programme on our prediction of a surge in unexplained deaths in Saudi Arabia.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Pretty incredible news here as a jury awards a massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group in a precedent-setting case. Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊 www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...
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Meta wins $168 million in damages from Israeli cyberintel firm in Whatsapp spyware scandal
The jury’s award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the well-known spyware vendor.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨 Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative supports civil society organisations fighting spyware abuse, through regulation, litigation, research and investigation, and other means. Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding
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Apply for funding — Spyware Accountability Initiative
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institutionalizing and legitimizing it.” Must read: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
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Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tottenham UK More ad activism.
A photo of a series of Tesla charging station. A cardboard image of Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute, has been placed on each charging station
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Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025
Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
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One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025
Join us for a convo about the future of social media – how open protocols & algorithmic pluralism can change things for the better! 🤓💪 Ft. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com @sherifea.com Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw... Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...
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The Next Social Wave: Open, Competitive and User-Controlled
Starts at 03/21/25 04:00 pm CET. For years, social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. The dangers have never been clearer. But ...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This utterly broke me today. 18,000 children (and counting) killed by #Israel. The pain is unfathomable. #Gaza
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is being held in a prison without being accused of a crime for being “antisemitic” by criticizing Netanyahu and Israel’s actions against Palestinian civilians while Trump strips Chuck Schumer of his Jewish identity using “Palestinian” as a slur. 1/3 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
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Lawrence on Trump's 'vile, antisemitic' attack on Schumer: Trump's mind is gone. It is shattered.
In the Oval Office today, Donald Trump used “Palestinian” as a slur and said the highest-ranking Jewish elected official, Chuck Schumer, is “not Jewish.” Those comments went unchallenged by the report...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It is entirely possible for Europe to speak in one, clear voice to (rightfully) defend Zelensky. But when #Israel blatantly violates the ceasefire AGAIN & prevents any humanitarian aid from entering the devastated #Gaza Strip - no solidarity, no messages of support, no ‘we’re with you’. Deplorable.
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 30/01/2025
We haven't been very active on here because our social media manager has been writing the 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. @shivanidave.co.uk (that's me!) looks at Big Tech's relationship with LGBTQ+ people before and after the updated Meta Community Standards.
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The People vs Homophobia
How will Meta's new policies impact LGBTQ+ folk? 🌈
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 21/01/2025
Meta is reportedly blocking #Democrat and #DNC on Instagram. When searching for these hashtags, some users are seeing a message that reads "We have hidden these results". But these users say they are still able to see posts when searching for #Republican or #GOP.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Even in their death and unimaginable suffering Palestinians are treated as subhuman and with utter contempt. Even as Israel has killed 16% of Gaza’s population, it is Israelis who experienced a massacre, whose lives were brutalised. Palestinians simply lost their lives. I despair. #Palestine #Israel
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In 467 days Israel killed 16% of Gaza's population. Despite the joy and relief - partic of Palestinians - none of us will ever be the same again. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be. We won’t stop fighting until Zionism is dismantled & #Palestine is free. 🇵🇸🤞🏼 #Ceasefire
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
My heart is full. The relief, the joy. We’ll never know the unbelievable suffering Palestinians have experienced. Tragically, this ceasefire could been agreed last year if Biden & Netanyahu wanted. So many lives lost & forever destroyed needlessly. The resistance continues until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 13/01/2025
🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
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Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Far from "censorship", in their 2024 EU DSA Systemic Risk Assessment and Mitigation Report, Meta proudly trumpets their work with independent fact-checkers, writing it "forms the basis to prevent the spread of large scale misinformation and disinformation" transparency.meta.com/sr/dsa-sra_r...
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Of course he does. | Mark Zuckerberg seeks ‘active role’ in Trump tech policy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Mark Zuckerberg seeks ‘active role’ in Trump tech policy
Top Meta lieutenant says company ‘overdid it a bit’ on moderation after CEO’s dinner at Mar-a-Lago
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/12/2024
Signal is famous for knowing as little about its users as possible. The app isn’t hoarding metadata, tracking you, or showing you ads. President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social sees a shift underway as the monoliths of big tech lose popularity and the old economics of Silicon Valley become brittle.
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With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the president of the Signal Foundation talked about secure communications as critical infrastructure and the need for a new funding paradigm for tech.
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 03/12/2024
👀🔎 Last week Big Tech companies published their first reports of how they assess the systemic risks of their platforms to users under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Here’s what we’ve found so far: 🧵
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 29/11/2024
The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Google to sell Chrome. The tech giant has a dominance in the market when it comes to search engines and the judge says it has an illegal monopoly. Chrome is the most used browser in the world. #pvbt #google #chrome #technews
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/11/2024
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has acknowledged criticism of the EU’s “double standards” in its inconsistent stance on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, saying this notion spread widely in the countries of the Global South. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5kakj8
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024
Will the #EU continue to be tough on #BigTech regulation, or will they be too scared of provoking #Trump? And will the next 4yrs be as bad as it looks for tech justice? @mccoolingtons.bsky.social spoke to some of our members across Europe to get their takes: blog.peoplevsbig.tech/trump-x-euro...
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Trump x Europe
Will the EU befriend Trump or fight Big Tech? Newsletter editor Alice McCool asked the experts.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
WANTED: ❌Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. ❌Israel’s former defence minister, Yoav Gallant. ❌Al-Qassam Brigades commander, Mohamed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri.
Image reads Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu; wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity; with wanted placed over his photo
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 20/11/2024
DuckDuckGo is asking the European Commission to open three DMA non-compliance investigations into Google: spreadprivacy.com/investigate-.... It's hard to disagree with the points they're making.
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Roadblocks to Competition: Investigate Google’s Non-Compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act
DuckDuckGo calls on the European Commission to launch three non-compliance investigations into Google.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“Don’t bother. We’re waiting to die.” The world has failed the Palestinian people. Keir Starmer and David Lammy included. Thank you for trying @rohantalbot.bsky.social
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 14/11/2024
Big shout out to Bluesky from @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social!
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 14/11/2024
Is Elon Musk accidentally helping us break up Big Tech? 🤯 Find out in our newsletter by @mc00.bsky.social + @mccoolingtons.bsky.social, ft. tech decentralisation pro @robin.berjon.com. Subscribe to stay up to date on Big Tech’s dirty tricks + how to fight them! blog.peoplevsbig.tech/the-people-v...
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The People vs Centralisation
Is Elon Musk accidentally helping us break up Big Tech? 🤯
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 13/11/2024
Here's a quick roundup from Rasha Abdul-Rahim of what we’ve been reading to get to grips with what the #Trump victory means for our digital rights. We promise to keep campaigning, reporting + informing you of Big Tech #Algorithms' latest dirty tricks 📢🧐👾 blog.peoplevsbig.tech/trump-tech/
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Trump Tech
From Tech Bros to AI, here's what we're reading after the election 🤓
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Nice to see so many of you here on Bluesky! May the mass X-odus (see what I did there?) continue 🙌🏽 #X-odus
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service."
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Bluesky Adds One Million New Users After Election
With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
How can life go on as normal when Palestinians & Lebanese ppl are being annihilated? I cuddle my children, see dead children. My kids go to bed with full tummies in a warm, safe home - but millions are starving, dodging bombs & bullets & tanks. I drink something & imagine people dying of thirst.
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