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Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in protest against the government, and have been venting their anger online. Dissidents claim that some of their posts on Instagram were deleted.
Digital transnational repression has a chilling effect on exiled and diaspora activists and dissidents who find themselves repressed by authoritarian states, even in places where they assumed they had a relative degree of safety and freedom.