Yes. With social media, no more hidden place for politics. Information both fake and authentic travel round the world in seconds. Social media increase and promote activities of political spies that are capable of bringing down any political structure.
as accurate information and effortless communication helped good people drive out corruption, bigotry and lies. Yet Facebook acknowledged that before and after last year’s American election, between January 2015 and August this year, 146m users may have seen Russian misinformation on its platform. Google’s YouTube admitted to 1,108 Russian-linked videos and Twitter to 36,746 accounts. Far from bringing enlightenment, social media have been spreading poison.
Social media functioned as a type of unsocial media, undermining public debate rather than reviving it. Hate speech tainted public discourse, while fake news and targeted hacking attacks derailed it further.