Disruption Timeline

By Molly_Johnson
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    Disruption Timeline

  • Global Game Changer

    Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit, and they changed the global game.

  • Terrorist Use Internet

    terrorists use the Internet the same way that everyone else does.

  • Egyptian President Overthrow

    FIVE YEARS AGO this week, massive protests toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, marking the height of the Arab Spring.

  • Terrorists Use Internet

    terrorists use the Internet the same way that everyone else does.

  • Organized Activists

    Activists were able to organize and mobilize in 2011 partly because authoritarian governments didn’t yet understand very much about how to use social media.

  • Facebook Arrests

    26 million people are on Facebook (up from 4.7 million people in 2011), security forces arrested three people who administered nearly two dozen Facebook pages, according to Egyptian media reports.

  • Turkey Tweets Removed

    Turkey has made 805 requests for tweets to be removed since 2012, according to Twitter’s most recent transparency report; more than half were made last year.

  • The Dress

    The sensation of the white and gold or black and blue dress

  • The case of Candlelight Vigils in South Korea

    Facebook as a social media platform, collected in South Korea during the 2016 candlelight vigils.