TikTok Issues
Sebastian Usher, BBC News, Tala Safwan: Egyptian TikToker held in Saudi over ‘immoral’ video, 26 Jul 2022 “Tala Safwan, who has five million followers on TikTok and some 800,000...
Tweet-washing
Nadia Helmy, Modern Diplomacy, Chinese propaganda in the Middle East through social media and Twitter “Here, a remarkable activity has recently been observed by Chinese Arabic-speaking journalists, media persons...
KSA YouTube Request
The National, Authorities in Saudi Arabia ask YouTube to take down ‘offensive content’, 24 Jul 2022 “A joint statement by the Saudi Commissions of Audiovisual Media and the Communications...
Travelwashing
It’s important to consider the online influence of travel content as a means of facilitating Assad narratives: Travel content creators are being accused of whitewashing the Assad regime in...
#Fetrah
Morocco World News, #Fetrah: Online Campaign Against LGBTQ+ Community Goes Viral in Morocco “In an apparent bid to counter campaigns supporting the LGBTQ+ community and same-sex relations, the term...
Ms. Marvel
Having lectured on many aspects of Muslim media representation issues over the years, I have to mention Ms Marvel – which has been a joy to watch on Disney+....
Influence Impacted
TechCrunch, Google Exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google core products, search and maps “The TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it...
DNS and Radicalisation
Arthur Bradley & Deeba Shadnia, Examining Online Migration To Terrorist And Violent Extremist-Owned Domains (Tech Against Terrorism, GWU Program on Extremism Abstract: “This paper analyzes the use of terrorist...
‘Islamic Responses to COVID-19’
Hard to believe that this happened a year ago … The one-day UWTSD online conference on ‘Islamic Responses to COVID-19: Authority and Religiosity in #Muslim Communities and Digital Worlds’....