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Politician Sues Facebook After Account Deactivation

I’m hardly one to feel sympathy for politicians, but this is a good one.  Majed Moughni, a Republican candidate for Congress last year in Michigan’s 15th district, is suing Facebook for damages after he lost the election, which he claims happened because his Facebook account was deactivated. Moughni stated: This lawsuit was filed to address […]

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Answering Students’ Questions

Yesterday, I had the good fortune to speak at Professor Lani Guinier‘s Harvard Law School course on Law and Social Movements, along with MIT Professor Dayna Cunningham and my good friend Nasser Weddady of the Hands Across the Middle East Support Alliance. The topic of discussion, of course, was the use of technology in social […]

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Internet & Mobile Access and Social Movements: Libya, Madagascar, Beyond

Lots of conversations in my life these days are inspired by single tweets. And those tweets, for me at least, are often inspired by my own frustration in the media’s ineptitude on certain issues. One of those issues, of course, is understanding the effects of social media and the Internet more generally in the Arab […]