“The popular uprisings that began taking place throughout the Middle East and North Africa were already using social media as an integral part of their campaigns — by tweeting about events to which journalists didn’t have access, organizing demonstrations through Facebook, and sending out raw video footage…
But Mr. Malkoun wanted news to spread faster, and with even more participation from regular people. Signal, he says, solves the problem of important events being shared only with “friends” and “followers.”
‘Let the community tell you what’s happening,'he says. 'It’s better than having just one or two individuals doing it.’"
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