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TED Talks: Season 2016

2016x08 Wael Ghonim: Let's Design Social Media That Drives Real Change
TV-PG

  • 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt ... by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to messy, then ugly and heartbreaking. And social media followed suit. What was once a place for crowdsourcing, engaging and sharing became a polarized battleground. Ghonim asks: What can we do about online behavior now? How can we use the Internet and social media to create civility and reasoned argument?
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