This explains how social media can both weaken – and strengthen – democracy
This explains how social media can both weaken — and strengthen — democracy.
Democracy Dies in DarknessMonkey Cage(Kacper Pempel/Reuters)Analysis by  Joshua Tucker, Yannis Theocharis, Margaret E. Roberts and Pablo BarberáDecember 6, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. ESTThe past year has seen a flood of concern about how social media can undermine democracy. And yet not too long ago, after the Arab Spring, social media was being hailed as a “liberation technology” that would help spread democracy. How can this be?