Shabab Libya

Shabab Libya, also known as the Libyan Youth Movement (Arabic: حركة شباب ليبيا), or LYM for short, is a Libyan Facebook group started in January 2011 to spread awareness on planned protests (17 February) across the country. As the uprising began, the Libyan Youth Movement provided news, images and videos in real time across the world and acted as a unified voice for the Libyan people.

Members of the movement used Twitter as well as Facebook and YouTube to spread news from inside Libya throughout the revolution. As of November 2014, they have over 45,000 followers on their Facebook page and 158,000 followers on Twitter.

Background
The Libyan Youth Movement was founded by Omar Amer on the 2nd February 2011 to support a planned uprising on the 17th of February 2011. This quickly caught on as the only Libyan movement in the English language at that time. Ayat Mneina quickly became a key member of the movement in its earliest days, Ayat was able to quickly organise many contacts inside the country predominantly made up of family and friends allowing her to tweet a live update of the revolution.

The organisation had interviews with several major news outlets during the Libyan Civil War.