Kidnapping in Broad Daylight: Social Media's Blurred Lines The August heat hasn't been kind to Egypt, but it was a student's ingenuity and desperation that caught international attention when he livestreamed his own kidnapping on Facebook.
The incident raises more questions than answers about the intersection of social media, crime, and modern day survival tactics.
The kidnapper's apparent lack of concern for being captured on camera is chilling – a symptom of the changing landscape of human trafficking and its increasingly brazen methods.