Tag Archives: FaceBook
My Take on #BanglaSpring: #MangoDown
I checked out the #BanglaSpring tag on Twitter yesterday. First impression was yet another social media engineering event using realistic looking but fake accounts. A lot of the information being posted is hard to verify – Conflicting reports on #Bangladesh death toll – Between 28 and 3500 ciibroadcasting.com/2013/05/06/con… #BanglaSpring @channelislam— Azhar Vadi (@AzharVadi) May 06, […]
Are you Being Squeezed by Social Media?
Facebook has made several radical changes to support its drive to increase revenue. Twitter is on the same path. But have they tipped the balance and found your breaking point yet? Dangerous Minds has written a lengthy and eloquent complaint about how Facebook is deliberately “broken” so that your posts are held hostage unless you […]
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#Mauritania News in Brief 7 August 2012
The last news summary for Mauritania told of a tragic plane crash [fr] which claimed the lives of seven people, including members of the Air Force and customs officials, and the twist of fate which spared the life of one other. As I write, people are still posting tributes to the victims on a FaceBook event page [ar]. The […]
#Mauritania Citizen Journalists Robbed
There’s a reason we call it “the struggle”, “la lutte”. Nothing can be taken for granted in a repressive situation, even things that should be simple are made difficult. Logic and convenience slide uselessly off the hunched shoulders of the oppressed. For the majority of activists in Mauritania, our everyday reality is all too often […]
