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Dear Journalists, (Yes, France24, I’m talking to you). If you would like to interview me for an article, you can do so easily.  My e-mail is listed on the contact page of this blog.  My phone number is listed in numerous places (or you can just–gasp!–ask me for it).  No need to quote my blog, […]

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Shame on the American Media

And just like that, with one brief tweet, @OctaviaNasrCNN is no longer…That is, because of her tweet mourning the death of Lebanese religious leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Nasr has now been pushed out (fired? It’s not yet clear) from CNN.  The tweet? Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One […]

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More Facebook Deactivations

Call this my quarterly (or thereabouts) post on the issue. Since I began tracking instances of Facebook deactivating user accounts and deleting content from existing profiles and groups, I’ve found that the practice has not waned at all; if anything, it has increased. I first wrote about this in April, when I reported on Moroccan […]