Alarabiya.net reported the story on Sunday and has since received nearly 100 comments.

She wrote here how new media has changed the way she, and many of her generation, consumes the news now. For the second time this month, I sit on my bed with my tablet in the dark and refresh a hashtag consistently for hours.

Spread the news!

The news made me cry.

The news spread like wildfire.

The news was covered by all Argentine media, and some cable news channels transmitted the wake throughout Sunday.

The good news of the day Zeinobia ( Zeinobia) September 21, 2014

We've probably all heard it in the news by now Greece is ablaze.

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Femen confirmed online that

The tragic news drove his mother mad.

The good news is that we'll be able to help you.

Commenting on this news, Hatem writes

Egyptian prolific blogger Zeinobia broke the news

And from Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 3abdulaziz said

Nadine Ghazzawi, Razan's sister, responds to the news on the above Facebook post saying

Here s some context.

Philip broke the news to the new Queen.

The message has been received loud and clear.

in English at Harvard University in the late 1980s.

The headline simply reads there are no words .

Egyptian Amro Ali reacts

The report of this went out into all that land.

And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.

He undertook training in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

A.A. Dowd of The A.V.

It's not clear whether this fabricated news was written as a joke or with vicious intention, but many people accepted the news as fact.

In a part of the world where good news is hard to come by, prolific Egyptian blogger Zeinobia describes her release as the good news of the day

I was shocked to see this news at Wael Abbas.

We just seek to get the word out and inform people about us.

Government authorities have apparently chosen not to censor the news.

One of the many responses to the story is by Mungoma and reads

Journalism and mass communications professor Rasha Abdulla announces

Please help get the word out so Bassel stays safe. jillian c. york ( jilliancyork) October 3, 2015

We think that social media does not desensitize people.

From Nepal, Twitter users reacted

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