Tactics are tricky. Choosing the right ones to advance your campaign takes research, time, and testing. So it’s helpful to see how others have handled similar situations. Two new online resources promise to make it easier for Arab organizers to find and adapt a wide variety of tactics to their campaign work. New Tactics Launches […]
Tunisia has a grim history of Internet censorship. The extensive surveillance and filtering practices of Zeine el Abidin Ben Ali’s former regime had earned Tunisia the title of ‘’internet enemy ‘’ in 2009 and 2010, along with countries like China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Two years after the fall of the Ben Ali rule, Tunisia is taking steady steps toward […]
Facebook graph search has raised a lot of legitimate questions about the privacy issues of its users. Here’s one from Wamda about potential threats in the Arab region. Information you have posted publicly on Facebook will make you searchable, such as post updates, pictures, pages you have liked, etc. Electronic Frontier Foundation has just produced […]
At long last, today marks the day that we release the English edition of our new guide Creating Facebook Pages with Impact. The guide is similar in structure to the Arabic booklet of the same name, which we published in March, but has been thoroughly updated to reflect Facebook’s new features, new numbers, and new […]
