'It exists to demobilise opposition': How Twitter fails Arabs
Uncova,
The Syrian revolution They seemed to come out of nowhere swarms of anonymous Twitter accounts that attacked anyone who…
'It exists to demobilise opposition': How Twitter fails Arabs
Al Jazeera,
In this series of articles, Al Jazeera examines how Twitter in the Middle East has changed since the Arab Spring.
Why did ISIS, and not another group, emerge as the most powerful in Iraq and Syria? Computational social scientists say the organization’s tweets hold important clues
MIT Technology Review,
In the chaos that followed the American withdrawal from Iraq and the popular uprising in Syria, a number of groups began…