Amplification of political agendas on social media fans flames of pre-existing tensions in real world

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Social media platforms like X and Facebook were created with the idea of bringing people closer together, but are instead destroying social cohesion through misinformation and disinformation online

Societies, communities, are standing on a very delicate tightrope, and social media has the ability to tilt the balance instantaneously, sometimes by providing misinformation which can be taken as the truth. It just spirals out of control, it snowballs...where social media has added firewood to the fire

social media algorithms corral people into echo chambers that magnify occasional incidents as if they are ubiquitous.

even the way in which social media platforms presented conflicts was problematic, because of what he termed their “bite-sized content...Consequently, many come away thinking of themselves as knowledgeable about the world, even though they have only superficial engagement with it.

In the European Union, laws have been institutionalised to hold platforms legally liable for unlawful behaviour by users if they are aware of it. In contrast, in the US, social media companies are protected from being treated as the publishers of any content they distribute unless they create it...In Singapore, amendments to the Broadcasting Act were passed in 2022 to make social media platforms liable if they fail to protect local users from online harms

it would be dangerous if social media comes in and amplifies the fault line into a chasm

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