Abdallah al-Salmi
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YouTube channel gives daily reports from Misrata
A Libyan citizen media outlet on the video-sharing site YouTube is publishing daily audio and video reports on the situation in Misrata. Since 26 February, the Freedom Group channel, affiliated with Wefaq Libya, has been putting out insightful information and descriptions of the battles being...
Emergence of anti-government media in Libya
A group of Libyan opposition activists have uploaded onto the internet a newsletter they say was published in Zintan, 75 miles south of Tripoli. The newsletter is one of several independent media sources to emerge in Libyan cities freed from Colonel Gaddafi's control. One of the newsletter'...
Libya: YouTube videos challenge official media
Amateur videos by Libyan protestors are testing the pro-Gaddafi (Al-Qadhafi) mood that dominates the state-run media. The videos, on YouTube and other social media, serve as tools in a war of information between the country's government-run media and protestors in various Libyan cities. The fi...
How Egyptians are defying internet shutdown
The internet and mobile phone network lockdown in Egypt last week has failed to stifle debate on the anti-Mubarak protests on social media. Internet and censorship activists outside the country have been helping Egyptian netizens as their online social media have shown no signs of life sin...
