[LINK] The emerging dark side of social networks

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

The emerging dark side of social networks
By Dominic Basulto
April 8 at 8:07 am
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/04/08/the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networks/

We’ve all heard how social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and 
YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the 
masses and making it easier to topple dictators. Now, we’re now seeing a 
darker side to them. In some cases, they’re being co-opted by 
governments as disinformation tools, used by authoritarian regimes to 
crack down on Internet dissenters, and even being used as part of 
digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba.

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