There are things that often seem too trivial to be taken seriously, yet can still have a huge impact on an entire nation. Take social media, for example. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes the entire purpose of Facebook is to simply “connect people”. It sounds very optimistic, harmless and positive. It certainly seems like it does not need to capture the attention of government officials, policymakers, or any group or individual that is working to ‘develop’ a nation, yet how far could this be true? Firstly, Facebook definitely, and most evidently, was not created solely to “connect people”. The reality is far from that. It is a business that treats its users as a product to sell to advertisers, to news agencies, and to other forms of entertainment. And just like other businesses, the more more money it accumulates and the more concentrated of ownership it becomes, the more it starts to deviate from influencing society positively. In 1988, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman wrote a book titled ‘Manufacturing Consent’ to explain the negative effects of mass media in the United States. They coined the term ‘propaganda model’…
