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Social Media Effects: Hijacking Democracy and Civility in Civic Engagement
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Olaniran B
; Williams I
Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy
2020[]; ? (?): 77-94
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Perceived as an equalizing force for disenfranchised individuals without a voice,
the importance of social networks as agents of change cannot be ignored. However,
in some societies, social networks have evolved into a platform for fake news and
propaganda, empowering disruptive voices, ideologies, and messages. Social
networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google hold the potential to alter civic
engagement, thus essentially hijacking democracy, by influencing individuals
toward a particular way of thinking.