{"id":29070,"date":"2022-05-12T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/mesa-koinonikis-diktyosis-kai-dimokratia-eleftheries-kai-apeiles-triantafyllos-karatrantos\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:06:41","slug":"mesa-koinonikis-diktyosis-kai-dimokratia-eleftheries-kai-apeiles-triantafyllos-karatrantos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/mesa-koinonikis-diktyosis-kai-dimokratia-eleftheries-kai-apeiles-triantafyllos-karatrantos\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and Democracy: Freedoms and Threats &#8211; Triandafyllos Karatrantos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social media are one of the most important communication revolutions in human history.<\/li>\n<li>The suspension of Trump&#8217;s Twitter account provoked strong reactions and a debate on freedom of speech on social media and on whether a regulatory framework was needed or not.<\/li>\n<li>Elon Musk&#8217;s purchase of Twitter has brought the freedom of speech debate to the fore once more in a very dynamic way.<\/li>\n<li>At its peak, Donald Trump&#8217;s hate speech led to the attack on the Capitol, one of the most embarrassing moments in US history.<\/li>\n<li>Social media are known to act as an echo chamber for polarization and promoting &#8220;us versus them&#8221; rhetoric.<\/li>\n<li>The way the terrorist organization DAESH\/ISIS uses the internet and social media has led to a dramatic increase, and increase in sophistication, in how both are now used by similar organizations, contributing substantially to the creation of a digital jihadisphere.<\/li>\n<li>The pressure put on social media platforms has led to the adoption of measures to tackle hate speech and intolerance, the dissemination of propaganda, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The new EU legislative initiatives, and in particular the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, are moving towards a strengthening of the regulatory framework.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Policy-brief-163-Karatrantos-EL.pdf\">here<\/a>, in Greek, the Policy brief by <strong>Triandafyllos Karatrantos<\/strong>, ELIAMEP Research Fellow.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media are one of the most important communication revolutions in human history. The suspension of Trump&#8217;s Twitter account provoked strong reactions and a debate on freedom of speech on social media and on whether a regulatory framework was needed or not. Elon Musk&#8217;s purchase of Twitter has brought the freedom of speech debate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492,102],"tags":[],"program":[20],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45130,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29070\/revisions\/45130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29070"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=29070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}