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Social media harms democracy by spreading rumors, survey shows
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2026
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Yet in principle the social benefit described (amplifying voices of the unheard) isn’t entirely out of reach for social media as a category, especially if we can escape the era of closed platforms. Open alternatives are still relatively new. There is a plausible future in which closed platforms are left behind and we become much more capable of keeping mass public manipulation in check.
Exactly but I think for most people social media = the ones used by the masses, the "social normiedia", like Facebook and Twitter.