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Image via Pixabay. Free use via Pixabay license. On February 28, 2022, internet users in Sudan noticed that some posts from the resistance committees in various neighborhoods had disappeared from their Facebook timelines. The resistance committees are integral to the ongoing protests against military rule in the country, and social media platforms like Facebook are critical to their organizing work. Some users speculated that the posts were disappearing as part of a cyber-attack from Russia or the Canadian lobbying firm Dickens and Madison that had previously been retained by the Sudanese gove…