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Twitter and Facebook are helping the Arab Spring? Not really

Published February 11th, 2013 - 05:00 GMT

If the Internet can claim partial credit for the Arab uprisings, should it also take blame for some of the more negative trends of the last two years? Video showing the injured soldiers in Arssal; Ahmadinejad to Egypt was a Dud; and the Egyptian Animal Farm.
Social media gets the credit and the blame for the Arab Spring.
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Video showing the injured soldiers in Arssal [2]
Abu Aardvark's Middle Eastern Blog [3]
Twitter Devolutions
How social media is hurting the Arab Spring.
Blog Baladi [4]
Video showing the injured soldiers in Arssal
Since we have proof that there were injured, why doesn’t the army interrogate them and tell us what really happened?
Egyptian Chronicles [5]
Another Bad Day for Media in #Egypt : #YouTube , Offensive cartoon and TV hosts to investigation
Who could ever think for one second that media in Egypt will suffer like this after the revolution !?
Informed Comment [6]
On How the visit of Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Egypt was a Dud
Even the youth, more liberal wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, led by Essam Elerian, was uncomfortable in being lumped in with Ahmadinejad by the New York Times’s Thomas Friedman.
Tabula Gaza [7]
The Egyptian Animal Farm
The hypocrisy of the current regime in covering up its responsibility organized murder of football fans of al-ahly club under the rule of the Military Council in late 2011 evokes images of animal farm.
Jazarah [8]
“It’s Hero Time!” BEN 10 LIVE: Time Machine Awesome Live Action Show Touring Egypt
Awesome aliens, cool stunts and acrobatics, cutting-edge digital effects and loads of laughs make this one cool show that the entire family will enjoy.
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[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEAN9vsVorE
[3] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/07/twitter_devolutions_arab_spring_social_media?page=full&wp_login_redirect=0
[4] http://blogbaladi.com/video-showing-the-injured-soldiers-in-arssal/
[5] http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/02/another-bad-day-for-media-in-egypt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EgyptianChronicles+%28Egyptian+chronicles%29
[6] http://www.juancole.com/2013/02/visit-ahmadinejads-egypt.html
[7] http://tabulagaza.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-egyptian-animal-farm.html
[8] http://jazarah.net/its-hero-time-ben-10-live-time-machine-awesome-live-action-show-touring-egypt/