#Freespeechstories: Arrested for a Tweet

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France’s far right party, the Front National, is a family affair. Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the party, his daughter Marine took over the leadership and Marion Le Pen, their respective granddaughter and niece is one of the party’s only two MPs. But they do not necessarily see eye-to-eye. This week, Marion Le Pen disobeyed her aunt by sharing a controversial video, and as we find out, this is not the first time their disagreements play out on social media, revealing internal divisions within the party itself. Crashing Weddings Viewed over 54 million times, Maroon 5’s latest video features the band gate-crashing weddings. Although it turned out the gate crashing was fake, it breathed new life into a discussion on the website Quora that has been going on for five years, where people are sharing their best wedding crashing stories. We hear from one of them. Kenyan Blogger Arrested Earlier this month in Kenya an influential anti-corruption blogger, Abraham Mutai, was arrested, prompting an online campaign #FreeMutai. He has since been released, but he tells us how he is now worried that people don’t feel free to speak anymore. (Photo: Marion Maréchal-Le Pen. Credit: Bertrand Langlois/Getty Image)