Social media helped Iran government to identify and arrest dissidents
MOROZOV: The Iranian government began collecting and analyzing Twitter messages, Facebook messages, Flickr photos, and actually began asking the public to identify anyone who they could recognize in the photos. As many as 40 people were actually identified on those photos, and some of them arrested.
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