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Facebook’s Fastest Growing Markets
We are looking for two countries that are experiencing an explosive growth of Facebook users.
Cartel Violence and Social Media in Mexico
In violent parts of Mexico, social media outlets have become valuable channels for an emerging network of citizen journalists and concerned citizens.
Social Media Users at Risk in Mexico Drug War
Users of social media are at risk of finding themselves caught in the drug war in Mexico.
Notorious Spammer Brought Down Via Twitter
A science blogger explains the case of notorious spammer ‘Mabus’.
British Prime Minister Unfriends Social Media
Cameron suggested putting curbs on social networking sites when police determine they’re used to plot an illegal act.
Israel’s Cottage Cheese Revolution
Activists in Israel are using social media to voice their dissent about cottage cheese
‘There goes the neighborhood’
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Sohaib Athar, a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, live-tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden compound. His reaction to bin Laden’s death, on Twitter, was “there goes the neighborhood.” The World’s Marco Werman explores the various possible meanings of that phrase. Download MP3
Storify: Athar’s tweets during the raid
Social media in Syria
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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC’s Feras Kilani, who has been monitoring the social media out of Syria, about what Syrians are posting about growing anti-government protests there. Download MP3
Iran’s cyberwar
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced new initiatives to improve cyber-freedom in countries like Iran. Lisa Mullins speaks with Iranian cartoonist and editor Nikahang Kowsar of Khodnevis.org about what the best use of the money would be and how both Iranian online activists and Iranian authorities use social media to thwart each other. Download MP3PBS Tehran Bureau
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Growing unrest in Yemen
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The political opposition in Yemen is growing, and threatening the stability of the country’s long-time leader. But the BBC’s Natalia Antelava tells anchor Lisa Mullins that protesters in Yemen are hampered by a lack of unity, and little access to social media. Download MP3
Undoing the overshare in social networking
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Social networking sites make is easy to share our lives online. But, too much sharing can be disastrous. People have been fired or have seen their marriages fall apart because of a picture posted online that they had forgotten about. Numerous projects are underway to give people the ability to remove the offending material. The World’s Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd reports. Download MP3
Clay Shirky and the political power of social media
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As Tunisia has shown recently, the use of social media provides a lot of benefits to those challenging the status quo. However, there are limits to what social media can accomplish in the political sphere. Anchor Marco Werman talks with Clay Shirky, the author of ‘The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change’. It’s an essay that appears in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. Download MP3Video: Watch Shirky’s TED Talk
North Korea on Twitter
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North Korea appears to have ramped up its propaganda war against South Korea and the US by turning to Twitter and YouTube – websites that most citizens of the reclusive communist country are banned from viewing. The World’s technology correspondent Clark Boyd has more. Download MP3The World on Twitter
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Going grassroots in Japan
Inspired by the grassroots Obama campaign, a Japanese student tried to start an online group to mobilize young Japanese voters. But he discovered that his online effort violates the country’s 50-year-old election law. Akiko Fujita reports. Listen
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