Can you have a million friends in a short time? Well, some look at their successful social networks and see for themselves that they are, no matter how unusual it may seem that, for example, we wanted to gather them all behind a birthday cake.

Networks create gigantic imaginaries which equally serve both good and eviland by occupying effective communication channels, above traditional paths, they became an equally effective way of informing as well as an effective mechanism of manipulation.

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It seems that such a panorama was clearly understood by some world leaders who use them for their own needs: Nayib Bukele, the millennial Salvadoran president, is an international winner from the right for a good part of the world, due to his successful fight against gangs. , whose members shave their heads. moved to huge prisons. Publicist and digital native, he is longed for by many here, without much benefit from the inventory and underestimation of the possible restrictions on free expression that appeared at the same time and which journalists condemn without echo.

And Lula da Silva, who repeats the government in Brazil from the left, as a representative of the workers, shows signs of radicalization in just 6 months, and among his targets are social networks, riding the horse of “war” against fake news, the protagonists of the recent elections in that the country.

Brazil’s social media censorship bill, promoted by Lula, goes beyond the digital debate of those who want to disrupt society for various purposes. Analysts believe the bill also targets large tech communications companies. Google and Facebook, who are lobbying to ensure that the law does not pass without sufficient discussion, have already felt the allusions.

(…) It is an ideal scenario for such regulatory political action to achieve results, to the detriment of citizens…

The main fear is that radicalization not only seeks to control the editorial content, its actions, passions and possible distortions, but also aims to get into the accounts generated on the networks, even into the pockets of those who sponsor or advertise proposals that those in power consider are “dangerous”, which, if realized, will not only trigger self-censorship, but will also affect the growing digital economy.

This goes beyond the regulatory framework of the fight for responsible communication. New digital media are definitely a fundamental tool for those in power, both in their propaganda efforts and to use as an ideal excuse to impose controls and restrictions that discourage their use in cases of corruption, for example.

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The lack of purpose of self-regulation, fueled by Twitter no longer rewarding with a blue check those who show responsible management of their account, but in the era of Elon Musk made it available to those who can pay for it, the scenario is ideal for this kind of regulatory political action to achieve results, at the expense of good informed citizens.

It is a vicious circle that cannot be broken decades after using the Internet. (OR)