How Facebook Kept The Tunisian Revolution Alive

While the stories behind the recent revolution in Tunisia are just beginning to trickle out, an article posted in The Atlantic today explains how Facebook came to realize the Tunisian government had hacked its citizens' accounts on the social network.

While the stories behind the recent revolution in Tunisia are just beginning to trickle out, an article posted in The Atlantic today explains how Facebook came to realize the Tunisian government had hacked all its citizens’ accounts on the social network.

To say that this revolution was similar to the Columbian revolution against the FARC that was first started by an individual named Oscar Morales on Faceboo, would be inaccurate. By all accounts though, the social network played the most significant role of any web technology used during the revolution.

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