People will believe that having social media turns you into Tunisians
Giving social media more credit than it deserves is likely to make many more people believe that whenever social media is present they can expect similar outcomes.
This, of course, would be wrong, as the protests in Tunisia were driven by economic and political considerations (and internal politics, like the refusal of the army to intervene) than they were by the presence of social media. We can be relatively certain that if Ben Ali didn't fall, his police would now be carefully studying all tweets and Facebook messages posted during the protest and arresting everyone involved
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People will believe that having social media turns you into Tunisians
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