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Here, Twitter had played a role beyond its intended function as social media where people get connected to their acquaintances and friends online. "Without Twitter the people of Iran would not have felt empowered and confident to stand up for freedom and democracy", Mark Pfeifle, a former national-security adviser wrote.
Internet activism and, specifically, social networking has been instrumental in organizing many of the 2009 Iranian election protests. [1] Online sites have been uploading amateur pictures and video, and Twitter, Facebook, and blogs have been places for protesters to gather and exchange information. [1]
On January 4, 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump made several tweets stating that if Iran retaliated against the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, "the United States will hit 52 Iranian sites, some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture, very fast and very hard."
Twitter said on Friday that it had permanently banned an account connected to the office of Iran’s supreme leader, shortly after the account posted a photo showing former President Donald Trump ...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that Iran remains the “single greatest source of instability” in the Middle East and threw his full support behind Israeli Prime Minister ...
Internet Filtering Committee (Iran) headed by Prosecutor-General of Iran decides which websites must be censored and implements this vast censorship. In response to the 2019 Iranian protests , the government implemented a near-total Internet shutdown, reducing traffic to just 5% of normal levels.
Echoing France's Napoleon Bonaparte, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday took to social media to signal continued resistance to limits on his executive authority in the face of multiple legal ...
The hashtag (in its original Persian form of "اعدام_نکنید") was conceived after the news of their order of execution was confirmed, and managed to be on top of the trending page on Twitter for two hours, [1] [2] being the first trending hashtag in Germany, second in Canada and even reaching ninth in England. Though there were ...