How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into foreign interventions
- Written by Eleonora Mattiacci, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised to resign by the end of the month. That announcement came after thousands of Algerians took to the streets in March to protest his decision to run for a fifth term.
Social media played a crucial role in those demonstrations, allowing protesters to coordinate the place and time of the mass...
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