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How is Assanage more influential? A lot of the opposition groups behind the mass uprisings sweeping the Arab world credit Facebook as a key tool for organizing their revolutions.

Facebook is seriously changing people's lives on a large scale. Wikileaks has mostly provided diplomatic gossip, with a few things tossed in that will harm people, and a smaller number of things tossed in that will help people.



In Tunisie, at least, many people have said the Wikileaks exposure of Ben Ali's corruption were influential.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/25/whispering_...




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