When the Arab owner of an Israeli tahini company donated to a gay rights organization, activists called for a boycott of her company, videos circulated on Facebook and Twitter of Arab shopkeepers pulling Al Arz’s tahini from their shelves. nyti.ms
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Secretive Egyptian and Emirati companies worked to bolster authoritarian regimes in the Arab world by creating fake social media accounts, before Facebook cracked down nyti.ms
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When we asked how he formed his views about people of Arab and African descent, Renaud Camus said that his understanding was based mainly on Twitter and Facebook. He said he almost never read newspapers or watched television. nytimes.com
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Egypt has the largest community of Facebook users in the Arab world. That has brought promise -- and perils. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld6 years ago
An Arab leader running in next week's Israeli election said he alerted Facebook to what he described as "racist incitement" in a message sent out by a Netanyahu campaign bot, prompting a 24-hour ban nyti.ms by @IKershner
@nytimesworld6 years ago
An Arab leader running in next week's Israeli election said he alerted Facebook to what he described as "racist incitement" in a message sent out by a Netanyahu campaign bot, prompting a 24-hour ban nyti.ms by @IKershner
