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It Could Happen Here Weekly 94

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Rise of the Armed Extreme Right

I would use Twitter quite a lot to look at what what local journalists are doing in places like Mali and Niger. I started off using Twitter in Yemen when I was working there because the I was 50 kilometers from a town that was entirely controlled by Al Qaeda. And one of them was on Twitter. They were all posting on Twitter and there was some fantastic local journalists who were posting on Twitter as well. So you got to see in almost real time what was happening in these places.

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