WASHINGTON: Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, in a worrisome trend for democracy, a human rights watchdog said Nov 5.
An annual report on online freedom by the nonprofit group Freedom House found evidence of "advanced social media surveillance programmes" in at least 40 of 65 countries analysed.
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