digital versions of these posts and notes they re filled with messages like these brant one here saying we dream of a better tomorrow we dream of a beautiful and free algeria of a good and useful education and together we will make our dreams come true neither here down with the corrupt regime down with the patriarchy the people s will is the only source of legitimacy here you can see an image zero instead of a gun a facebook symbol i mean clearly people there see facebook as a revolutionary weapon for the protesters and twenty one thousand facebook by the way brant it s a hugh. huge platform in nigeria how if the population uses it and there s no true independent media in algeria either so facebook that s where people go for information organizing and it s not just young purchasers you are using facebook right jamey we re even seeing it being a valuable tool for politicians one of the most well known is actually cause he s a businessman he s been banned from running for president twic