Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought into stark relief the complicated evolution of social media, from its role in bringing joy to millions confined in their houses, by presenting us with mood-lifting celebrity videos on "how to make your own lockdown sour dough" to the facilitation of a raid on the US Capitol building by Trump supporters in early 2021. If Mark Zuckerberg thought he had a difficult year in 2018 when the Cambridge Analytica furore broke, 2020 was certainly worse. Recent months have also witnessed the banning of (then) President Trump first from Twitter, which has long been his communication medium of choice, even prior to the 2016 election, and then his consequent banning from a cascading number of other social media platforms.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Legal Issues in Information Technology Law |
| Editors | Mark Perry, Alpana Roy, Melissa de Zwart, Michael Adams, Niloufer Selvadurai, Heather Forrest, Monique Cormier, Simon Mc Kenzie |
| Place of Publication | Pyrmont, NSW |
| Publisher | Thomson Reuters |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 153-168 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0455245142 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780455245140 |
| Publication status | Published - 23 Feb 2022 |
Keywords
- social media
- internet
- disinformation
- information technology