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Journalist David Wolman traveled to Egypt in the summer of 2008 to report a story about a group of activists known as the April 6 Youth Movement. In LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET, Wolman reflects on seeing those same activists leading the Egyptian revolution protests.
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