Activist Charged for Inciting 'Twitter Revolution' (Updated)

A Moldovan activist faces criminal charges for organizing demonstrations that were enabled by social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the Russian press reports.

In an interview with Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, Moldovan Prosecutor General Valeriu Gurbulea said Natalia Morar, one of the organizers of an anti-Communist flash mob, has been officially charged with “calls for organizing and staging mass disturbances.” (Morar has not been put in jail, however–despite some reports to the contrary.)

Prosecutors, Gurbulea added, were contemplating charges against another 200 people he described as being involved in an attempt to overthrow the government in Moldova’s so-called “Twitter Revolution.”

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