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The end of politics as we know it
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This great TED talk gives us a glimpse on why social media dramatically impact irreversibly policy, regimes and news streams around the world. While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.