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About three months ago, when thousands of Lebanese went into the streets demanding systemic change and opposing corruption, they likely never thought that their move would lead the country into a dead end and bankruptcy.

Gaid Salah was, by many estimates, the true head of Algeria following Bouteflika's ouster.

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About protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Algeria

It will soon have been a month since thousands of people began to demonstrate in the Santiago de Chile Metro

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I warned about the possibility of governments misusing social media resources to spread their influence, point out how the internet could become a weapon in the hands of certain governments ready to use the technology against their populations and their political enemies

By now word has spread about the hotly contested $6 tax on WhatsApp calls in Lebanon, but are the mass protests really about a tax hike a social media app?

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