Turkey鈥檚 Social Media Ban and a Saudi First Kiss
Have you ever nose kissed? One of the latest parodies of the YouTube hit 鈥橣irst Kiss鈥� examines an age old greeting between men in the Gulf.
Over the last week, events on social media moved fast in Turkey as first Twitter then YouTube were blocked under a controversial new internet law. Mukul Devichand has been late night tweeting to get the latest and speaks to journalist Solchuk Goltasli to find out more.
麻豆社 Trending also catches up with the women behind a new Facebook campaign in Ukraine. The group are raising money for the military by selling t-shirts with the provocative slogan 鈥楧on鈥檛 Give It to a Russian鈥�. Plus comedian Hatoon Kadi tells us what鈥檚 really behind the Saudi Arabian parody of the trending video 鈥楩irst Kiss鈥�, and why YouTube is so big in the country.
Mukul Devichand is joined in the studio by 麻豆社 Arabic鈥檚 Mai Noman, 麻豆社 Digital Consultant Esra Dogramaci and down the line from Kiev in Ukraine is Masha Kondrachuk from 麻豆社 Monitoring.
Producer: India Rakusen
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