4 posts and columns on Morocco

YouTube Moves to Play Bigger Role in Middle East With Seven Local Versions

in Social on March 10, 2011 at 12:40 pm PT

YouTube today launched versions of its site for seven countries in the Middle East, a step that could add to the site’s local importance during the region’s ongoing turbulent political times by better surfacing timely citizen videos.

Facebook Denies Responsibility for Morocco's Lousy Sense of Humor

in Social on February 29, 2008 at 10:11 am PT

If Fouad Mourtada spends the next three years in prison for creating a fake profile of a Moroccan prince on Facebook, it won’t have been the social-networking site that put him there. Facebook insists it didn’t help the Moroccan government identify the 26-year-old engineer as the author of crown prince Moulay Rachid’s fake Facebook page. [...]

Facebook Denies Responsibility for Morocco’s Lousy Sense of Humor

in Social on February 29, 2008 at 10:11 am PT

If Fouad Mourtada spends the next three years in prison for creating a fake profile of a Moroccan prince on Facebook, it won’t have been the social-networking site that put him there. Facebook insists it didn’t help the Moroccan government identify the 26-year-old engineer as the author of crown prince Moulay Rachid’s fake Facebook page. [...]