news bulletin – answers

The power of protest on Facebook

true/false

1. Social networking has been popular for many years. F: it is a recent phenomenon
2. Tensions can be fired up and put down on Facebook. T: ‘stoked and quelled’
3. Protests from Bosnia persuaded Facebook to close a group. F: Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia
4. The protest group was 13,000 strong. F: 30,000
5. Facebook is pleased with its policy. T: it is working
6. Social networking open platforms actively encourage abuse. F: they don’t actively encourage this but it is possible
7. Facebook is very dangerous. T: according to the sociologist interviewed
8. Facebook is used for protests. F: it can be used to organise these outside of the site
9. Protests were organised by groups from Croatia and Slovenia. T
10. The protests were concerned with political expression. T