"I once said, ‘If you want to liberate a society, all you need is the Internet.’ I was wrong. I said..."

“I once said, ‘If you want to liberate a society, all you need is the Internet.’ I was wrong. I said those words back in 2011, when a Facebook page I anonymously created helped spark the Egyptian revolution. The Arab Spring revealed social media’s greatest potential, but it also exposed its greatest shortcomings. The same tool that united us to topple dictators eventually tore us apart.”

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Wael Ghonim, cited by Thomas Freidman in Social Media: Destroyer or Creator?

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/138602041472