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Debate: The ‘gilets jaunes’ movement is not a Facebook revolution

By on January 17, 2019 in Big Data, Digital Activism, Facebook, Journalism, Social Movements

In less than a month, France’s gilets jaunes (yellow vests) have gone from being a celebrated example of Facebook’s ability to power a spontaneous revolution to a cautionary tale of how social networks can be manipulated by outsiders to provoke outrage and sow dissent. But in both of these extreme scenarios, the central actors lie [...]

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