The efforts of the survivors of the Sasun massacre, and their allies in the ABCFM, to disseminate narratives of state violence were countered by the Ottoman state as it sought to maintain a monopolization of legitimate narrative. In both cases, the story of Sasun played on the global stage. Telegraph wires carried the story of Sasun, and the apologetics of the Ottoman government, to readers around the world. Like all technologies, the telegraph was a Janus-faced tool. It helped actors disseminate information, but it also helped them control it. In the Ottoman Empire, the telegraph allowed the state to centralize information. Never before had the Ottoman state possessed such control over information flows. Yet, the telegraph also disseminated narratives that largely circumvented Ottoman censors. These narratives, collected by missionaries, consuls, and journalists, contributed to protests in the United States and Great Britain. As more stories of massacres appeared in newspapers abroad, the Ottoman state clamped down to maintain its desired public image.