As the networked world of the internet makes that which is distant seem very local, reality can be both distorted and amplified. The unfortunate “Innocence of Muslims” video served as a catalyst for the dissatisfaction felt by many toward American support of Arab nations.
Yet this would not have occurred without the ability to spread video through YouTube and Vimeo, and the ways by which the mainstream media and fringe element together in the Arab world decided to popularise a slanderous piece of media that would not have been able to travel the way it did in a pre-internet world.
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