In this cartoon, Malaysian artist Zunar examines the government’s plan to control Facebook and other social media networks.
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Though Facebook has over 1.23 billion users around the world, these 10 countries have political leaders who don’t want their citizens to have access to the site, or who have banned it amid fears that it could be used to organize political rallies.
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Editorial cartoonist Surendran Rasadurai (Sri Lanka) on the stoning of a Syrian girl by the armed resistance group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for joining Facebook.
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Read an exclusive excerpt from Rewa Zeinati‘s first creative nonfiction book, Nietzche’s Camel Must Die: An Invitation to Say ‘No.’ A compilation of 115 daily Facebook notes, the themes range from women’s status and gender roles to kitchen sink grinders and men’s beards.
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Outraged by the spying practices of the NSA, tech giants Google and Facebook have been calling for substantial reform and more transparency. Political cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands) takes a closer look.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh visiting writer Vijay Nair discusses the absurdity he sees in the recent arrests of two Indian women for their comments on Facebook.
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Author Hamdy El-Gazzar constructs a narrative based around two key players in the Egyptian Revolution: the “Facebook girl”, who rallied people to gather in Tahrir Square”, and a forgotten poet who re-discovers poetry after decades of silence.
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