About Us
Sawaal began in April as a fairly incidental Facebook page. It grew faster than we expected: more than 25,000 people joined the page, and its posts reached nearly 30 million unique users. The answer had something to do with the politics of Sawaal itself. We did not want its fate to be decided by algorithm, by pursuit of numbers, by the peculiar economy of visibility that governs social media. Facebook helped us begin; it could not be our permanent inhabitation space.
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