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Twitter was "complicit" in spreading rumors during the Iranian protest

Morozov quotes Golnaz Esfandiari, a Radio Free Europe Iran correspondent, in "deploring Twitter's pernicious complicity in allowing rumours to spread" in Iran during the crisis.

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