Citizenside: Al Jazeera Talk blogger responsible for Facebook page that took down Mubarak
April 18th, 2011Posted by Joel Gunter in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick, Events, Politics
According to a video report from citizen press agency Citizenside, it was an Al Jazeera Talk blogger, a member of the Egyptian army, that created and managed the Facebook page central to the uprisings in the country.
So far only Google engineer Wael Ghonim has been credited with administrating the page.
In the video, Ahmed Ashour, managing director of Al Jazeera Talk, speaks to Citizenside editor-in-chief Philip Trippenbach.
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