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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
In today’s day and age, social media platforms are the digital equivalent of the Pony Express, telegraph and telephone of their era. They have even supplanted television as a source of news and information. Reports prepared by digital rights groups have shown that these platforms not only shape political views, they alsoamplify extremism and violent tendencies. For better or worse, social media plays a gargantuan role in shaping global human discourse. Facebook is the Big Daddy of this market, with nearly 2-billion daily users and 3-billion monthly users. That is nearly 40% of the world popula…