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Social Media Disruption

  • ISIS Recruiting

    ISIS Recruiting
    ISIS has been using Facebook to find individuals with extremist Islamic views who are likely to join their forces
  • Arab Spring

    Arab Spring
    “We use Facebook to schedule the protests” an Arab Spring activist from Egypt announced “and [we use] Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world.”
  • Revolution in Venezuela

    Revolution in Venezuela
    Predominantly Twitter is used to share images and videos of protests and rally's against or in favor of president Maduro
  • Anti Trump Protests

    Anti Trump Protests
    Protesters use Twitter to invite others to airports in protests against immigration executive order, and to share developments.
  • Charlottesville, White Nationalism

    Charlottesville, White Nationalism
    Facebook was used to organize and unify a movement formed by a previously outcast and fractioned minority.