A Twitter experiment backfires on diplomat at time of heightened concern following death of Italian studentBritain’s ambassador to Egypt was criticised by human rights activists after in an experiment of “crowd-sourced diplomacy” he asked Twitter users what should be on his agenda – and failed to mention “human rights” as one of the four options.
Ambassador John Casson instead asked whether tourism,currency, terrorism or political reform ought to top his agenda before a visit by five British MPs to Cairo on Monday.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com