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By Sarah Bons

Protestify Connects Citizen Journalists to a Global Audience.

When Christina Hawatmeh was a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 2012, she searched Twitter for breaking news on protests in the Middle East. She soon realized that much of the material uploaded to Twitter ended up “lost” for a variety of reasons: imperfect social media algorithms limit search options; people search for hashtags in multiple languages; and some users fear that a certain hashtag will be monitored by their government. Hawatmeh, now 26, decided that there had to be an easier way to categorize and access updated information...

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