With the Egypt crisis deepening, the daily White House press briefing has been pushed back and it was rumored that the President would make a statement. But Robert Gibbs has taken the podium. You can watch it live here.
As events accelerate in Egypt, we’ve opened TPM’s Egypt Wire to bring you the very latest developments. Click that link or so the latest updates on the front page to the right just below the feature.
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We’ve now seen a series of waves of popular unrest which were, if not triggered by, at least accelerated and sustained for a period of time by social media, text messaging, easily-distributed digital imagery and all the rest of systems of our wired world. The latest reports out of Egypt are that the state has either disrupted or shutdown key social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as well as text-messaging and Blackberry service. It’s unclear to me in this report from the AP whether Internet connections themselves have been blocked; but clearly access to the Internet has been significantly curtailed. Read More