The power of protest on Facebook

By Cecilia Brabin | November 27, 2017

Dec 22 – Concern remains over the use of the social network by nationalist groups after Facebook closed down a Serbian group celebrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

The group "Noz Zica Srebrenica" (The Knife, The Wire, Srebrenica), written in Serbian cyrillic script extolled the detention and killing of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces commanded by fugitive general Ratko Mladic.

Reuters Technology Correspondent Matt Cowan reports.

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The power of protest on Facebook

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  1. Social networking has been popular for many years.
  2. Tensions can be fired up and put down on Facebook.
  3. Protests from Bosnia persuaded Facebook to close a group.
  4. The protest group was 13,000 strong.
  5. Facebook is pleased with its policy.
  6. Social networking open platforms actively encourage abuse.
  7. Facebook is very dangerous.
  8. Facebook is used for protests.
  9. Protests were organised by groups from Croatia and Slovenia.
  10. The protests were concerned with political expression.

 

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