WARSAW (REUTERS) - It started five years ago with a music video uploaded by a teenage blogger on YouTube.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Now, the Nexta Live channel, with more than two million subscribers on the messaging app Telegram, has become one of the main sources of news in Belarus, where a popular uprising aims to unseat President Alexander Lukashenko.Now, he works from exile out of an office in neighbouring Poland, guarded by uniformed police.
The channel's videos of demonstrations have been shared widely within Belarus and broadcast by international news agencies.It and other upstart channels are thriving by using social media platforms in a country where traditional broadcast media are tightly controlled by the authorities.
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