"The events in Seoul also cemented the shift in social media from X to Bluesky, where news was breaking faster than anywhere else, in a way that echoed what Twitter used to be. Since Twitter was a key site of democratic organizing until Elon Musk bought it and renamed it X, that shift is significant."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-3-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#SouthKorea #Democracy #Coup
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#SouthKorea #Democracy #Coup
December 3, 2024
For an astonishing six hours today, South Korea underwent an attempted self-coup by its unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, only to see the South Korean people force him to back down as they reasserted the strength of their democracy.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
