Abdallah Haj Mohamad, the head of Jalud village’s council, stands in front of the Jewish settlement of Shvut Rachel as he speaks during a tour organized by the Palestinian authorities for ambassadors based in Tel Aviv and consuls based in Jerusalem to show the development of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, on March 16th, 2017. (Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images)
Not Twitter Revolutions, But Twitter-Assisted Revolutions
Despite the fervent hopes of its boosters, the Internet by its lonesome doesn’t drive democratic change, but it can reinforce existing impulses.