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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In this week’s “Off-Screen” journalist Than Win Htut examines the role that Facebook and state media has played in escalating racial and ethnic conflicts in the Rakhine state of Burma.
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In this interview cyberactivists Ameer and Syrian Thinker talk about the Syrian government’s current surveillance of Twitter, the groups of activists known as “coordinations” that disseminates news via Twitter and Facebook, and the methods Syrian bloggers use to work around the government’s censorship.
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Several Internet companies, including the Indian subsidiaries of Google and Facebook, announced on 6 February that they had complied with Indian court directives to remove from their sites content deemed objectionable.
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A transcript from a live Facebook interview hosted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with Alexander Lukashuk and Jan Maksymiuk, two correspondents from its Belarus Service (Radio Svaboda).
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In Bahrain, the use of Facebook and Twitter have becae a convenient digital paper trail for government officials to expel and prosecute perceived offenders and protesters in accordance with Bahraini Emergency Laws.
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This slide show features cartoons by Burmese political cartoonist Aw Pi Kyeh. He continues to illustrate despite the ban on his work, and he has turned to new channels of distribution such as Facebook.
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