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Why you shouldn’t blame Facebook for what ails democracy
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Released:April 7, 2018
Aaron Wherry, CBC News, April 7, 2018
Amid the onslaught of revelations about Facebook, Twitter and what’s been happening online during election campaigns around the world, there’s a glimmer of (potentially) good news: governments could take steps now to impose some order on the political activity taking place on social media platforms.
Now, the bad news: social media is just one part of the current threat to Western democracy.