Shahbag to July Bangladesh’s Digital Street: Who Owns It in 2026?
In 2013, Bangladesh’s politics changed forever—not in parliament, but on Facebook. The Shahbag movement created the country’s first digital street, where legitimacy was produced through visibility, circulation, and attention rather than organisations or party hierarchies. Thirteen years later, as the 2026 election approaches, that unresolved digital terrain has become the central battleground of politics—louder, faster, and far more manipulated, but still decisive.