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Syria's Crowdsourced Coverage
Syria's Crowdsourced Coverage
As some demonstrations in Syria have been met with violent crackdowns and journalists have been forced out of the country, coverage has come largely from citizen media.-
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has sent tanks into the country's third city, Homs, escalating a military campaign to crush a seven-week-old popular uprising against his autocratic rule. According to the Syrian human rights organization, Sawasiah, as many as 800 civilians have been killed since th
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all my condolence for the real hero in syria the army who died protecting us against those terrorist who are pretending to fight for freedom. i hope that god bless our president Bashar alasad and give him the power to keep our country always safe and free. we all syrian love you
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we are not demonstrating against illegit gvt, we are demonstrating for #Rajhi, our new found symbol! #SidiBouzid #Tunisie
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Twitter and Facebook have proven valuable for sharing information - both verified and not.
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Syrian-American lesbian blogger at forefront of reporting on Syrian protests #p2 #lgbt #syria http://fb.me/F0P5UrEC
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Syria accused of using soccer stadiums as prisons http://clz.co/mANe6F
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#Syria 'tortures activists to access their Facebook pages' - Telegraph http://t.co/7fcRO8M
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We should not be any more ok with this than we were with Libya. Where is the UN?: 'House-to-house raids' in Syria http://bit.ly/k7IE4X
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Armed-with roses,as men ALWAYS shd be.Votd Fave Pic Syrian rev(by me).Frm #Syria w love.Via MalathAumran.May5Banys http://twitpic.com/4v31d7
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And these platforms have provided a platform for criticism of the Syrian government, both from inside and outside of the country.
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Bashar the Butcher .. Long Live #Syria .. Bashar will go & #Syria will rise! http://twitpic.com/4r90zm
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However, not all voices talking about Syria express dissent:
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User-generated videos from Syria have been vital sources of reporting, especially with so few journalists in the country. This video shows a plain-clothed individual standing among Syrian police firing shots at chanting protestors from Crowdvoice.org.
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Part of the difficulty with user-generated video is verification - how do you know a video is really from Syria? Or is shot when it's claimed to have been shot? Crowdvoice.org is an aggregator of social media content that is curated and peer-checked by their trusted community. For example, all videos in this story were verified and vetted by Crowdvoice.
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CrowdVoice brings together the global community with the topics you care about and want to follow. CrowdVoice is user-powered - the submitted information is chosen and approved by the community. Instead of checking news, video and social networking sites for updates on the issues that matter to you, get your fix in one place and join the crowd by adding information or approving what others already submitted.
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Protestors shot in the village of Daraa:
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A Children's Protest in the city of Tabqa in Syria:
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Chants of "The people want the fall of the regime" in the City of Hamaa, seen here in front of a building with a poster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad:
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Masked men destroy a mural of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in the city of Homs:
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Warning: This following video is very graphic.The death of a protestor on "Challenge" Friday:
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We interviewed Esra'a Al Shafei of Crowdvoice about her organization's work in verifying and highlighting videos shot in Syria.
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Fresh in the minds of many watching Syria is the Hama Massacre of 1982, an operation carried out during the Presidency of Hafez Al-Assad, which killed tens of thousands of people in the span of a week. In the age of social media, crowdsourced event mapping and citizen journalism are such incidents no longer possible?
"The Syrian govt is doing everything it can to create a media blackout," says @xmarksthespot77 of @pressfreedom: http://ow.ly/4QbSp #syria
Reporters Without Borders protests against crackdown on media in Syria: http://t.co/VeSIQKq
Video isn't the only thing helping to prevent future massacres. SyriaTracker is powered by Ushahidi which gives a visual layer and interface to events in the country as individuals report them. Crowdsourced efforts like this may aid in acting as a vanguard against possible war crimes and outright massacre of civilians.
we are not demonstrating against illegit gvt, we are demonstrating for #Rajhi, our new found symbol! #SidiBouzid #Tunisie
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