{"id":119509,"date":"2021-02-13T01:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T09:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/social-media-must-not-be-allowed-to-destroy-democracy-says-the-eu-president"},"modified":"2021-02-13T01:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T09:23:15","slug":"social-media-must-not-be-allowed-to-destroy-democracy-says-the-eu-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/social-media-must-not-be-allowed-to-destroy-democracy-says-the-eu-president","title":{"rendered":"Social media must not be allowed to destroy democracy, says the EU President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/social-media-must-not-be-allowed-to-destroy-democracy-says-the-eu-president.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All governments across the globe are the same they don\u2019t want a free flow of information that would challenge their authority and decisions that they think are good for us, maybe because they want to maintain law and order in society.<\/p>\n<p>I am against the control of social media by the government and I am also against the algorithms which are designed to make people addicted to social media by showing the thing that appeals most to them for profit.<\/p>\n<p>What are your opinions on this topic, how we can achieve the balance between these challenging aspects of social media use?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In case you missed it at Davos, Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s call for safer social media. \ud83d\udcd5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All governments across the globe are the same they don\u2019t want a free flow of information that would challenge their authority and decisions that they think are good for us, maybe because they want to maintain law and order in society. I am against the control of social media by the government and I am [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,41,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-information-science","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}