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Social Media Arab Spring News Monitoring

  • Published on Oct 25, 2021

    Facebook’s language gaps ‘weaken screening of hate and terrorism’

    The problems plaguing Facebook’s content moderation are systemic, internal company documents from a whistleblower suggest. In Gaza and Syria, journalists and activists feel Facebook censors their speech, flagging inoffensive Arabic posts as terrorist …

    Source: Breaking News from Ireland - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 25, 2021

    Facebook language gaps curb hate screening

    In Gaza and Syria, journalists and activists feel Facebook censors their speech, flagging inoffensive Arabic posts as terrorist content. In India and Myanmar, political groups use Facebook to incite violence. All of it frequently slips through the company…

    Source: PerthNow - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 25, 2021

    FACEBOOK PAPERS: Facebook’s language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism

    Palestinian journalist Hassan Slaieh shows his blocked Facebook page during an interview in Gaza City, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. A hashtag for one of Islam's holiest sites is banned, scores of Palestinian journalist accounts are blocked, and the archives …

    Source: The Sentinel Colorado - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 25, 2021

    Facebook's language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the Gaza war raged and tensions surged across the Middle East last May, Instagram briefly banned the hashtag #AlAqsa, a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, a flash point in the conflict. Facebook, …

    Source: Spectrum News 13 - Florida - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 2, 2021

    A Silent Arab Spring is Sprouting…in Israel

    Good news is never that exciting. It’s always more dramatic to ring the alarm about one problem or another. Calling Israel an “Apartheid” state, as Representative Rashida Tlaib did recently, is a good example. It’s so inflammatory that it’s guaranteed to …

    Source: Jewish Journal - California - Uncategorized
  • Published on Sep 4, 2021

    Don't break up social media, bifurcate it

    (MENAFN - Gulf Times) After being celebrated for playing a central role in the Arab Spring, social-media platforms are now blamed for any outcome that traditional media outlets dislike – from the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump's election to …

    Source: MENAFN - Neutral
  • Published on Sep 2, 2021

    Battling the ills of social media

    CHICAGO – After being celebrated for playing a central role in the Arab Spring, social-media platforms are now blamed for any outcome that traditional media outlets dislike – from the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election to political polarization …

    Source: The Gleaner - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 20, 2021

    #EndSARS: One year of no justice, but the narrative is changing

    The protests gathered a lot of steam, but there was that sense something was going to sabotage it and so it did when on October 20, 2020 after the announcement of a curfew by the Lagos State government, personnel from the Nigerian army shot at protesters …

    Source: Pulse - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 21, 2021

    Taliban turns social media into a tool for control

    In one video, a Taliban official reassured female health workers that they could keep their jobs. In another, militants told Sikhs, a minority religious group, that they were free and protected. Still others suggested a new lawfulness in Kabul, Afghanistan …

    Source: Economic Times - Uncategorized
  • Published on Oct 19, 2021

    Libya since Kadhafi: A decade of civil war and chaos

    A file photo taken on August 13, 2021, shows an unfinished hotel, after its construction was halted in 2011, in the Libyan capital Tripoli. AFP TRIPOLI — As Libya marks 10 years since dictator Moamer Kadhafi was ousted and killed, here is a timeline of the …

    Source: Inquirer.net - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 18, 2021

    Judges postpone trials of 3 Egypt activists, lawyer in Cairo

    Oct. 18, 2021Updated: Oct. 18, 2021 7:32 a.m. FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2014, file photo, Egypt's leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah takes a moment as he speaks about his late father Ahmed Seif, one of Egypt's most respected human …

    Source: SF Gate - California - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 12, 2021

    Is Morocco's 'Arab Spring' moment finally here?

    Earlier this week, hundreds of Moroccans protested the death of Yassine Lekhmidi, a 25-year-old man in the city of Sidi Bennour. In July, local police confiscated a food cart Lekhmidi was driving because he wasn't wearing a face mask to protect against …

    Source: Deutsche Welle - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Aug 2, 2021

    ISS TODAY: With the Arab Spring on the back foot, the struggle for political change is far from over 

    Kais Saied, Tunisia's president, ahead of a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, not pictured, in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, June 4, 2021. (Photo: Dursun Aydemi/Anadolu Agency/Bloomberg) First published by …

    Source: Daily Maverick - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 23, 2021

    Social media has given voice to the Cuban awakening

    Social media can be a force for good, and that’s not something you hear frequently in today’s world. While the perils of social platforms, including censorship, are being hashed out in the global public square, American social media companies are …

    Source: The Hill - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 22, 2021

    How Social Media Gave Cuban Protesters a Voice

    MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA - When thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest this month, their calls for freedom and an end of “the dictatorship” were heard across the world, thanks to the rise in social media. In the town of San Antonio de los Baños, 20 …

    Source: Voice of America - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Oct 15, 2021

    Sports-focused media company in Reston partners with national teams

    Zoomph President Amir Zonozi (Photo via FCEDA) Zoomph, a Reston-based tech company that started in 2016 is continuing to build national partnerships. Its digital platform provides social media post metrics for sports clients along with detailed demographic …

    Source: Reston Now - Virginia - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 14, 2021

    How Britain sells tear gas to dictators

    Protesting against British arms sales to Saudi Arabia during crown prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to London in 2018 (Pic: Guy Smallman) The British government has authorised sales of tear gas to several repressive states over more than a decade, …

    Source: Socialist Worker - Left-wing
  • Published on Jul 3, 2021

    Saturday essay: It's easy to hate social media, to truly make it work we need to learn to love it

    It’s fashionable to be irrationally critical of social media. Almost every policy relating to social media serves to restrain, rather than nurture it. The image of online platforms, amongst politicos and policymakers, is often that it is nothing more than …

    Source: City A.M. - Uncategorized
  • Published on Oct 13, 2021

    A defense for Facebook and global free speech

    Debates over Facebook have been roiling Western nations for years, with many voices raising questions over the unintended consequences of the social media giant’s outsized role in the public square. Such questioning is a healthy exercise in any true …

    Source: The Hill - Neutral

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