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Blog: Uses of Social Media for Activists

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Civil unrest Moldova in April, 2009 and and election fraud protests in Iran in June, 2009 make it clear that social media is now part of activists' toolkits. With the ability to route around censorship and route around restricted internet access, microblogging tools like Twitter and Identica, and social gathering sites like Facebook increase the power of social change activists.