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The 2020 Belarusian Protest - A "Telegram Revolution"?

During the 2020 protest wave in Belarus against the regime of Alexander Lukashenka, messengers like Telegram played a crucial role. Vasil Navumau from the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) and his colleagues published a data set with a corpus of nearly 2.000 images that shows how the popular Nexta Telegram channel covered and sustained the protest wave.

posted by Eduard Klein, 4 years, 9 months ago , Discuss Data