1. Social Media and Our Changing Government
... to be part of the Arab Spring. The people used social media to organize. The leader of Tunisia, Ali, was overthrown due to widespread protests that showed that he was not liked by the people. Knowing that protests could work to get regime change, other nations, such as Egypt and ... that wanted change were subject to harsh treatment from the government, much more severe than what the Tunisian protesters encountered. The social networking sites, which by that point had been a major tool in the protests, were a target of the government's technological capabilities. In both cases, the lead...
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