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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Technology: Oppressor or liberator? »Technology: Oppressor or liberator?
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ICT's capacity to spread democracy? »ICT's capacity to spread democracy?
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Cyber-utopianism »Cyber-utopianism
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Cyber-utopians understate the potential of Internet for repression »Cyber-utopians understate the potential of Internet for repression
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Governments are able to use Internet to strengthen their control »Governments are able to use Internet to strengthen their control
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Governments will use Internet to launch and propagate false rumors »Governments will use Internet to launch and propagate false rumors
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Twitter was "complicit" in spreading rumors during the Iranian protest
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Twitter did not only spread rumours »Twitter did not only spread rumours
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