Ever since it started existing, governments have had a love-hate relationship with social media. Predictably, the romance starts to sour when social media contains criticism of the government as it often does and the affair blooms when the opposite happens, in particular when sycophancy takes on gargantuan proportions. In our particular case, only days before the elections, we have a peculiar situation where social media is being manipulated with the seeming intention of bringing about a certain outcome in the polls. As social media users we all know that for the most part we spend very little time, if at all, on trying to assess whether the site of a well-known news outlet is authentic or not. Authorities become hypersensitive to social media during elections, hence the rather absurd steps taken to stop any kind of news that will go against the party in power.

Source: bd News24 December 26, 2018 18:11 UTC