How Social Media Can Make History

How Social Media Can Make History

Explore how social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging are revolutionizing news reporting and political dynamics in repressive regimes. In this 16-minute TED-Ed talk, Clay Shirky demonstrates the power of citizen journalism to bypass censorship and disseminate real-time information, using examples from Iran. Discover how the shift from top-down control of news to decentralized, user-generated content is reshaping the landscape of politics and information sharing on a global scale.