Let’s Build Pro-Democracy Twitter Bots

...number of bot-held accounts is probably higher. In fact, as many as one-quarter of all tweets[...]

Topics Governance Social Media

Israeli army, Hamas military tap power of social media

Quoted in USAToday...

Topics Social Media

TechPresident: How Obama’s Democratization Strategy Can Be Even More Tech Savvy

...big changes involves the summary dismissal of the country’s Data Protection Commissioner—an official whose independence is mandated by[...]

Canada can maintain ties with virtual embassies

In March, Canada closed its embassy in Syria. Earlier this month, Canada closed its embassy in[...]

Let’s Nationalize Facebook

Only then will the social network protect users’ rights and share valuable data with researchers. Over[...]

Topics Social Media

Reuters: Social Media and the New Cold War

...is now replete with examples of online civic projects doing things the state can’t or won’t[...]

U.S. puts sanctions on telecom firms in Syria, Iran

Interviewed for LA Times...

Topics Social Media

The Real Success in the Tunisian Elections is an Authentic, Democratic Process

TUNISIA, a country that had never experienced democracy, held a successful election last week. This was[...]

Topics Elections Governance

Tunisia election sets high bar for Arab Spring

...Egypt and Morocco — and later, in Libya. In just five months, an independent Tunisian commission[...]

Topics Arab Spring Social Media Social Movements

The Internet and Iran ‘It Is Possible to Pull the Plug’

Extensive Interview in Der Spiegel....

Topics Arab Spring Governance Social Movements

In Libya, perfecting the art of revolution by Twitter

Featured in Christian Science Monitor...

Topics Arab Spring Social Media Social Movements

Reuters: Why Democracy Will Win

...times of crisis, desperate dictators make clumsy attempts to disable communications. Attempts to disable digital networks[...]

Reuters: Digital Media and the Arab Spring

(This originally appeared as “Digital Media and the Arab Spring” on the Reuters Commentary Wire. The[...]

How The Internet Brought Down a Dictator

Interviewed by NBC...

Topics Arab Spring Social Media Social Movements

Reuters: How Digital Media Enabled the Protests in Egypt and Tunisia

(This originally appeared as “How Digital Media Enabled the Protests in Egypt and Tunisia” on the Reuters[...]

Internet Down, Gov’t Braces for Unrest

Interviewed for CBS Evening News...

Topics Arab Spring Social Media Social Movements