Posted By
Najib
Nov 17, 2015 08:35
A Palestinian cab driver decided to set himself and his car on fire after he got stopped earlier today by a policeman in Salim Salam. The driver apparently had a lot of pending fines and couldn't pay any of them. The story was first shared on bintjbeil.org and most of the comments I read there were bashing the police officer and the system and I can't really blame them. I don't blame them because the…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 16, 2015 08:46
Hilarious post by Adele_J Angelina Jolie probably has no idea that she has been making headlines for the past 2 days in Lebanon for statements that she never shared. First everyone starting sharing an unofficial post on her fan page on the Beirut bombings and then Lebanese Singer Najwa Karam decided to thank her for her thoughts by replying to her in Arabic . Another fake Angelina replied back by inviting Najwa to a Lebanese…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 15, 2015 09:45
Google has acknowledged the recent terrorist attacks in Beirut with a commemorative ribbon on their Lebanon homepage www.google.com.lb. The black ribbon is a sign of remembrance and mourning and was also added to Google's main page in response to the #Paris attacks. In addition to Google, several foreign papers today acknowledged the #Beirut attacks especially after Facebookâs Safety Check was activated for Paris attacks but not Beirut. To name few, Time and The New York…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 15, 2015 12:58
I never expected my post on Facebook's Safety Check to go viral but it looks like everyone thought Facebook should have activated that feature for other human disasters not just the Paris attacks. This led Mark Zuckerberg to clarify the matter on his Facebook profile and say the following: Many people have rightfully asked why we turned on Safety Check for Paris but not for bombings in Beirut and other places. Until yesterday, our policy…
Critiques
10 years ago
Al-Manar TV Reporter Ali Rasslan decided to visit Haidar, a three-year boy who got injured in the Burj Barajneh blast and ask him about his dead parents. The reporter was clearly aware that Haidar was ...
Lebanon
10 years ago
Facebook enabled yesterday the “safety check” following the Paris terrors attacks whereas people in the affected area can mark themselves as safe which will send an alert to their friends and followers. The Paris attacks ...
Critiques
10 years ago
After yesterday’s bombing, da7ye.com shared a video on their FB page showing fireworks in Tarik el Jdeede area and linked them to the twin suicide blasts. There were indeed fireworks but because of a wedding ...
Critiques
10 years ago
Picture by Hasan Shaaban/Reuters I don’t care if Burj al-Barajneh is controlled by a political party or not, today’s suicide bombings were directed against innocent civilians in a busy area of a southern Beirut suburb. ...
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