Tag: medias
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HRF Op-Ed: Social media’s importance in authoritarian run countries
[ad_1] By Hannah Van Dijcke Earlier this month, Meta’s Oversight Board ordered the platform to restore a video uploaded by a citizen-run Cuban news platform on the one-year anniversary of the July 11 protests, during which thousands of dissenting Cubans were brutally repressed. In the video, a woman could be seen urging other women to protest the regime…
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Texas woman Tierra Allen, social media’s “Sassy Trucker,” trapped in Dubai after arrest for “shouting”
[ad_1] London — A Houston woman is trapped in the United Arab Emirates after being briefly detained for “shouting” in public during an argument with a Dubai car rental company, a London-based organization trying to help her get out of the country has told CBS News. Social media influencer Tierra Young Allen, 29, known to fans…