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Activist and former Google executive Wael Ghonim once said, “If you want to liberate a society all you need is the internet.” “I said those words back in 2011, when a Facebook page I anonymously created helped spark the Egyptian revolution,” he explained retrospectively during a 2016 TED talk. From Egypt to Libya, social media helped facilitate uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, but not without its challenges — including widespread misinformation, hate speech, language translation mishaps and targeted surveillance. Ghonim decided to create the Facebook page in 2010, after seeing another post on Facebook: a photo of a young Egyptian businessman, beaten to death by police after trying to expose police corruption. His name was Khaled Said.“I could not sleep that night and decided to do something. I anonymously created a Facebook page and called it, ‘We are All Khaled Said,'” Ghonim said during the talk. The page grew quickly and became the most-followed in the Arab world. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered there to crowdsource ideas and share news that the Hosni Mubarak regime wouldn’t allow on traditional media. Related: Arab uprisings began with quest for freedom and led to repression, warsIn January 2011, Egyptians watched as activists in Tunisia drove out President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali with massive protests. “I saw a spark of hope,” Ghonim said. He used his Facebook page to call for “a revolution against corruption, injustice and dictatorship.”‘This revolution started online’On Jan. 25, Egyptians flooded the streets of Cairo and other cities demanding change. The government shut down the internet and tried to stop them. But the pro-democracy protesters didn’t give up. Within 18 days, Egyptian President Hosni Murabak stepped down. As thousands danced and celebrated in the streets of Egypt, Ghonim phoned CNN. “This revolution started online. This revolution started on Facebook,” he said. When asked by a presenter if he was giving Facebook credit for what — at the time — seemed like a massive political victory, he answered, “Yeah for sure. I want to meet Mark Zuckerberg one day and thank him.”As protests erupted in other countries like Libya, people in the diaspora tried to help using online tools.“We wanted to participate using social media and the internet,” said Ayat Mneina, a Libyan Canadian activist who was based in Winnipeg in 2011, during an interview with The World. In 2011, Mneina and a friend created the Twitter account Shabab Libya and a matching Facebook page for the Libyan Youth Movement. They gathered information from a network of sources on the ground in Libya, and distributed news and information about protests through their social media feeds. Yet Mneina said there were challenges from the very beginning. “We constantly had to block people. There was a lot of pro-regime propaganda that was following us everywhere,” she said. One night, their pages were suddenly swarmed by thousands of new followers from Serbia. “They were all pro-Gaddafi. And they flooded all of our comments. They posted so many pro-regime things and...attacked all of our information,” she said. "They were all pro-Gaddafi. And they flooded all of our comments. They posted so many pro-regime things."Ayat Mneina, Libyan Canadian activistMneina enlisted volunteers. They blocked people who spammed their pages. But fake accounts kept popping up and gaining huge followings.“They would...stoke the fire and say things that they knew that would get people on different sides of the conflict really riled up,” she said. What Mneina described may sound familiar today. Governments, regimes, and people all over the world have weaponized social media to launch coordinated propaganda and harassment campaigns and to surveil people. But at that time, it was a new phenomenon. And then the tactics got worse. “Online, it got so bad. And so out of control,” one Libyan activist who was organizing protests in Benghazi during the Libyan revolution told The World. The activist asked to remain anonymous because he fears for his safety. Today he lives in Canada. He said Libyan social media was a hotbed of misinformation and hatred back when the Libyan revolution first erupted — and now. “There [are] no words to describe how angry I am at Facebook and Twitter. The hate, the racism, the things they allow. The violence,” he said. Social media platforms, he alleged, lack the cultural context, the political knowledge and the language skills to deal with not just the Libyan market but most content in the Arabic language. ‘Uniquely open service’In a statement to The World, Twitter said: "As a uniquely open service, Twitter provides a platform for activists and movements around the world to be heard — empowering people to have a voice on issues that matter most to them.”“We put people first at every step and are committed to making Twitter a safer place,” the statement continued. “The Twitter rules are uniform across the globe and we have always used a combination of machine learning and human review.”“We have strong and dedicated teams of specialists who provide 24/7 global coverage in multiple different languages, and we are building more capacity to address increasingly complex issues,” the company said. “We continue working to improve and evolve our policies, products and processes and invest in technological solutions to build a healthier Twitter." Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.  In this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo, Mohammed al-Babi holds a golden pistol he says belonged to Muammar Gadhafi in Sirte, Libya. Credit: Manu Brabo/AP “In Arabic, we’re not worried about getting canceled. We’re worried about getting killed,” said the Libyan activist in Canada who still lives in fear. He also said he detests the idea that the Arab uprisings were fueled by social media. That might be a comforting narrative for the West, he said, but it’s not true. And it gives head honchos in Silicon Valley credit for what people like him did.“You didn’t give me revolution. You didn’t teach me how to protest,” he said. “I’ll give you the credit for the revolution if you take the credit for the Civil War.” Libya did dissolve into civil war after the Muammar Gaddafi regime crumbled. Different factions weaponized social media to vie for power, hunt down opponents and stoke divisions along ethnic lines. ‘Tearing us apart’It happened elsewhere, too: people in Myanmar, inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, tried to use social media to organize. But hate-filled posts and propaganda against the Rohingya ethnic and religious minority helped incite a genocide. Facebook has since said it’s investing more in people and technology to curb hate speech in non-English-language countries such as Myanmar, and working with civil society organizations on the ground to identify accounts that repeatedly produce problematic content. But many, including the activist from Libya, say it’s not enough. Related: A poem penned during Libya's 2011 uprising continues to inspire hopeWael Ghonim, the activist who started the Facebook page in Egypt, has come around on this as well.“The hardest part for me was seeing the tool that brought us together tearing us apart,” he told FRONTLINE in 2018, adding that social media quickly became a source of polarization and harassment in Egypt, too.“I don’t like admitting how naive I was, thinking that these are liberating tools,” he said. In the years since 2011, he said he’s realized social media platforms enable and even reward bad behavior — sensational and divisive content. With so little accountability, these tools are more likely to be used for bad than for good.“I once said, if you want to liberate a society, all you need is the internet. I was wrong,” he said during his TED talk. “Today, I believe if we want to liberate society, we first need to liberate the internet.”

It was a moment that defined online activism. When tens of thousands of people came out to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the end of the rule of Hosni Mubarak in January 2011, they weren’t responding to a political party or a leafleting campaign – but instead to a Facebook page. It was called “We are all Khaled Said” - in honour of a 28-year-old man who was tortured to death by Egyptian police. It was the moment when the world woke up to the true political power of social media. Wael Ghonim was one of the founders of that Facebook page - but the revolution did not go according to plan. The Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi was elected president, and was then overthrown by the army. He recently died while on trial. A wave of terror attacks, a shaky security situation, a faltering economy, and increasing political repression have rocked Egypt. Earlier this year, Trending visited Wael Ghonim in one of his favourite cafes in San Francisco to talk about technology, politics, and revolution. Have the events in Egypt changed his perspective on technology and politics? Presenter: Mike Wendling (Photo Caption: Wael Ghonim / Photo Credit: BBC)

What's it like to fight for democracy in the digital age? Nobel Peace Prize nominee Wael Ghonim was a key leader in the Egyptian revolution and shares how the experience felt- and why he thinks anyone would do the same. Today, he's revolutionary in another way: Wael is honest and vulnerable about his depression, and wants to bring more empathy into the world. Welcome to season 2 of The Black Sheep Podcast.

In this conference of the College Freedom Forum, Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian activist, shares his experience through life that made him became a revolutionary. He mentions the things that reminded him to never give up and continue fighting so that freedom and human rights can be implemented and applied in his country. He starts his speech by sharing the time that he was most scared in his life, and how he felt when being abducted by the authorities. Then he tells his story: where he grew up and the studies he took, that contributed to his personality and view of life. "Being an outsider shaped my view of life. It made able to question authority and challenge systematic abuse use of power.” After this, he mentions the events that were shocking for him, but then turn him into an activist, so he talks about how he left a great job in Google and his "safe or normal life" to fight for freedom and human rights. He presents the ways he used social media anonymously to point out his ideas, the risks he took to make a difference, and how he claim for a protest that with the help of more movements, was developed on January 25 of 2011. I believed that people like me, who are privileged with their experience and education, has a moral responsibility to contribute back.” Then Ghonim expresses his feelings when he had to leave his country, mentions the things he learned from himself, and the situations that remind him to be a better activist. To conclude, he reads a letter and gives an inspiring message for society.

Aired 02/05/12 How did the Egyptian people overthrow longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak and are the people of Egypt better off today? I am very excited to speak with WAEL GHONIM, the Egyptian web exec who played a leading role in last year's Tahrir Square protests. With the first anniversary of those protests and the recent elections in Egypt, we have a lot to talk about. WAEL GHONIM was a little-known 30-year-old Google manager, unwilling to publicly criticize the Egyptian regime -- silenced like many by resignation and the fear of reprisals -- until he anonymously launched a Facebook campaign to protest the death of one particular Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. In his new memoir, he tells us - from his experience -- why and how the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression and found their voice. Let me read two quotes from WAEL GHONIM: "Social media allow ideas to be shared. They are places where people can unite, Revolutions can begin. A new type of Revolution - Revolution 2.0" and finally -- "People have called me a hero, but that is ridiculous - this has not been a revolution of heroic individuals, but about people coming together to overcome dictatorship. https://www.facebook.com/WaelGhonim http://hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/bookdetails?isbn=9780547773988&srch=true&utm_source=02-05-2012-GHONIM&utm_campaign=Wael+Ghonim-02-06-2012&utm_medium=email

Wael Ghonim was a little-known 30-year-old Google exec when he launched a Facebook campaign to protest the death of an Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. Now, in his new memoir, one of the key figures behind the Egyptian uprising takes us inside the making of a modern revolution- and discusses youth, activism, the Arab Spring, and why he is optimistic for the future.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks revolution. Wael Ghonim explains how social networks played a vital role in the Arab Spring. His Facebook page,'We Are All Khaled Said', which featured the death of a young Egyptian, inspired a new generation to fight oppression. Mary King, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies looks back to earlier struggles in eastern Europe, and the journalist Paul Mason explores how far the worldwide economic crisis and growing inequality lie behind the new revolutions. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Edition #459 Revolution in Egypt Part 3 A revolution well done   Donate tweets to Best of the Left!  DonateYourAccount.com/BestOfTheLeft   Act 1: Interview with Wael Ghonim before the step down - Majority Report Song 1: Enough - Dance Hall Crashers Act 2: They sphinx it's all over - The Bugle Song 2: Fuck you - Re-Mix Tools Act 3: Revolution 2.0 - Young Turks Song 3: Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne Act 4: A triumph of nonviolence in Egypt - The Progressive Song 4: Uprising - Muse Act 5: The US could never protest like Egypt - Lee Camp Song 5: La Valse d'Amélie (Version Piano) - Yann Tiersen Act 6: Social media allowing revolutions - Young Turks Song 6: President - Wyclef Jean Act 7: The story of the first protests - Majority Report Song 7: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote Act 8: Egypt: A good beginning - Mumia Abu-Jamal Song 8: The Crooked Road/The Foxhunters' Reel - Martin Hayes Act 9: The Brokaw Shelf - Rachel Maddow Song 9: Main Title (Golden Ticket / Pure imagination) - Leslie Bricusse Act 10: A revolution well done - Young Turks   Voicemails: Kim from Indiana supporting the show Thomas from Akron, OH on the need for a 'feminism' episode plus he calls me a star, yeah   Voicemail Music:  Loud Pipes - Ratatat   Final comments on the need for a 'feminism' episode   Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Facebook Page Fuels Egypt Protests - Young Turks   Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson   Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes!

Jim and Dave discuss the disappearance of the Head of Marketing for the Middle East and North Africa for Google, Wael Ghonim, a young Google executive who has vanished among the chaos in Cairo in the middle of civil unrest.

Jim and Dave discuss the disappearance of the Head of Marketing for the Middle East and North Africa for Google, Wael Ghonim, a young Google executive who has vanished among the chaos in Cairo in the middle of civil unrest.

In 2011, Wael Ghonim created a Facebook page that sparked the overthrow of the Egyptian regime. Since then, the former Google marketing director has kept a close eye on social media's evolution, and has plenty to say about where it's gone wrong, and how it can get better. Ten years after Cairo residents painted "Facebook" on the walls after the revolution, Ghonim stops by Big Technology Podcast to revisit what happened and where we go from here. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/big-technology-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy