Online manipulation and propaganda played an important role in elections, not only in the US but in 17 other countries around the globe in the year ending May 31, according to the latest Freedom of the Net report from Freedom House — a nonprofit organisation that promotes democracy and civil liberties. Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media, threatening the notion of the internet as a liberating technology, according to the report.Since June 2016, 32 of the 65 countries assessed in Freedom on the Net saw internet freedom deteriorate. Most notable declines …read more
Source: Geo TV
