Iraq's Social Media Martyrs • Discoverology

Iraq’s Social Media Martyrs

Huge nationwide protests against corruption have been making headlines, but these young millennials are taking on power in a different way, by celebrating beauty, fashion and rap. They’ve got millions of followers, but, as Unreported World finds out, fame can have deadly consequences.

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