Mexico: Twitter Hashtags as Source of Citizen-Driven News due to ‘Narco Censorship’ · Global Voices
Silvia Viñas

Andrés Monroy-Hernandez at ReadWriteWeb explains that in Mexico “some newspapers have officially announced a policy of self-censorship when it comes to reporting drug war-related news”, and that, “Twitter in particular, with its unidirectional follower model and its hashtags, has become one of the main sources of citizen-driven news in Mexico.”