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Social media and tools like Google Maps are being used to chart the spread of unrest that's based upon masses of people who are being dreadfully mis-informed by information learned second hand from the Internet.

The Atlantic Wire has created an interactive map to follow the riots and unrests that are tangentially related to a YouTube clip that insults Islam.


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The British Foreign office and the U.S. State Department are also active on Twitter with updates from around the world.

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