Peter Zschunke/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.For decades before the revolution, the ruling regime in Tunisia dominated public space, monopolized the media, confiscated the voices of dissenters, and spent a lot of effort and money to produce a media narrative in its favor.
To do so the regime strived in blurring facts, silencing voices and misleading international public opinion by promoting the fabricated image of ‘The Tunisian Miracle’ at home and abroad. This image presented Tunisia as a state of law, rights and institutions, where people enjoyed welfare. In reality, however, unemployment was rampant and poverty was widespread and tyranny was stiffling people.
To face this policy of systematic blackout, a number of young Tunisians endeavored to break the silence by creating new media that would expose the policies of the oppressive state and highlight the gravity of human rights violations during the reign of General Ben Ali.
