Twitter Helped To Distort Egyptian Protests

from National Public Radio

An assistant professor at UCLA recently returned from Egypt, where he researched the effect of social media on the movement to bring down former President Hosni Mubarak. Ramesh Srinivasan tells Steve Inskeep the notion that the revolution was driven by social media is vastly overstated.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, August 12, 2011