In fact, the millions of well-intentioned tweets to #BringBackOurGirls actually endangered the girls further, emboldening Shekau to keep them as prized hostages. The authors describe how the international interest of the events on Twitter affected the reality of hostage negotiations and prospects for release. What followed was a uniquely 21st-century phenomenon tied to and distorted by social media in novel ways. In 2014, Boko Haram, led by a deeply disturbed and avid YouTube user named Abubakar Shekau, kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from their dorm in the middle of the night. Two Wall Street Journal reporters examine the geopolitics surrounding the tragic 2014 kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram.īringing together years of investigative reporting and the diaries of some of the victims, Parkinson and Hinshaw detail the relationships among terrorism, geopolitics, social media, local conflict, and American military intervention.
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