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Why you shouldn’t blame Facebook for what ails democracy

Published:  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.

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