Social media platforms are becoming the new favored background for hate and the trends seems to be going global. Many social media platforms are beginning to regulate hateful content but the real need is to take a look at the industry of online hate and understand how these hateful messages can be potentially damaging to social media users. This article answers the questions: Is the new social Media polarizing societies?
After reading the article, I found that in order for there to be peace on the internet there has to be peace in the world as well. In recent time in the U.S. and globally there has been some major changes in how people from different races, cultural backgrounds and genders are being treated. Since there us still that level of discrimination amongst people there will always be some sort of disconnect on these social platforms.
“The internet only mirrors the world, it may reflect it, but it does not create it”(Joshi, 2019).
LIS 4022 Spring 2020 