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New Zealand

A woman holds a sign during a demonstration against Facebook in front of the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. (AFP)

After New Zealand attacks, Facebook under scrutiny

Mahmud el-Shafey

Jacinda Adern

One week after NZ attack, Facebook under scrutiny

Internet

English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, delivers a speech during an event at the CERN in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday March 12, 2019. (AP)

The internet’s 30th anniversary

New Zealand

A group of students (C) sings in front of flowers left in tribute to victims at the Botanical Garden in Christchurch on March 19, 2019. (AFP)

The lessons of the 17-minute outrage

Valentine's day

A man holds red flowers for Valentine's Day in in the Iraqi city of Mosul, on February 13. (Reuters)

Arabs mark Valentine’s Day with humour on social media

Jordan

Changing the rules. Jordanian influencer Anood Barqawi poses while taking a selfie. (Facebook)

The fashionable rise of Jordanian ‘influencers’

Arab

A power to affect. Kuwaiti make-up artist Sondos al-Qattan. (Instagram)

Arab social media influencers come of age

Khadija Hamouchi

US

Iranian protesters wave placards denouncing the US and Israel during a demonstration in Tehran, last December. (AFP)

Iran’s ‘influence operations’ in the region not adequately countered

Syria

A participant attends the opening of the Syria rebuilding exhibition at the fair grounds in Damascus, on October 2. (AP)

Damascus’s push for soft power legitimacy