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Social media was very good at short-term mobilization that removed Ben Ali, Mubarak, and others. But organization-building takes more than that, and the liberals in Egypt didn’t move on to that stage.
Francis Fukuyama in our live chat. If you hurry you can still get a question in. Also, read his op-ed from yesterday on how the Facebook revolution of the Arab Spring has failed to deliver lasting political change. 
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