A thought-provoking meditation on how the ‘Arab Spring’ represented a brief window in which it seemed that social media was an uncontrollable force for democratic empowerment. And how it turned out, instead, to be very easy to turn to the cause of supporting authoritarian and reactionary structures.
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David Andress (January 27, 2016). Social media and Revolution. The French Revolution Network. Retrieved September 4, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/toyn