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Trending: Yamecanse in Mexico and Serial Podcast Detectives

Yamecanse in Mexico and Serial podcast detectives

06/12/2014

Yamecanse in Mexico and Serial Podcast Detectives

BBC World Service - Trending, Yamecanse in Mexico and Serial Podcast Detectives

Outcry over 43 missing students, and unpicking a murder case

Outcry over 43 missing students taken by police in Mexico, and the online communities investigating a real-life murder mystery.

An online campaign around the hashtag #Yamecanse has been expressing the sentiment “I have had enough”. Videos, messages and photos have been voicing frustration with authorities over the country’s problem with corruption, crime and the drug cartels. The campaign was a reaction to the disappearance of 43 students after clashing with police. It has been 10 weeks since the students went missing, but the campaign has broadened out to a general protest against the state of the country. It is aimed not just at those in Mexico, but also calls on the international community to take action.

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Millions of people are hooked on the podcast Serial, a spin-off of the US public radio show This American Life. Serial revisits a real life murder case that happened in Baltimore 15 years ago. A suspect was found guilty at trial at the time, and is currently still in jail - though he insists he is innocent. The case has taken on a life of its own on social media, with half a million people discussing it on Reddit and some of them turning detective as they think they can shed new light on the case.

We look at the the investigations occurring on Reddit and find out what happens when the online community becomes part of the story.

(Photo: People hold posters during a march demanding justice in the case of the 43 missing students. Credit: Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)

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