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The Digital Guide

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Could billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter portend the decline of the Twitter “glory”? Are we facing a deepening crisis, resulting from the impact of social media on freedoms, politics, and democracy, as former US President Barack Obama recently stated?

Many justified questions arise, but no one seems to have an answer. Neither those who launched these platforms, nor those who embraced them, such as Obama, nor people who have claimed that such means of communication have become basic human rights.

It is like someone who took the genie out of the bottle and can no longer control it. The simplest example here is Obama, who promoted the social media platform and now warns of its danger.

“One of the biggest reasons for democracy’s weakening is the profound change that’s taken place in how we communicate and consume information,” Obama told students at Stanford University in California’s Silicon Valley last week.

He also admitted that he “may not have been elected” as president without the communication sites.

Obama warned of the repercussions of the means of communication and misinformation, saying that this “should be a wake-up call for us to take action.” He underlined the need to reform laws governing social networks.

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