Social Media, American Interests, and the Arab Spring
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The events of the Arab Spring that began in 2010 changed the political face of many countries, including Egypt and Tunisia. The role the Internet played in fomenting activism against authoritarian governments on the Arabian Peninsula has been explored at length in the popular media in both the West and the East, with various reports either overstating or underrating its importance. The contribution of the Internet to the events of the Arab Spring has led to support of the idea that open access and a free Internet is necessarily a force for good. This paper contests that idea, exploring examples that highlight the dangers in believing it. While the ability of social media to reach large audiences in short periods, and allow them to not only view information, but contribute to it, influenced the quick spread of the Arab Spring, this was a feature of the uprisings, and not the cause of them.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it