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Mexico: Twitter Hashtags as Source of Citizen-Driven News due to ‘Narco Censorship’

Written bySilvia Viñas

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Posted 7 September 2011 17:13 GMT

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.”

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