📳 It is safe to say that media and social media platforms are leading the world and dictating the prospects of war and peace, sowing love and justice or resentment and hate.

Information technology and social media can have a destructive role by misleading public opinion, spinning truths, blurring facts, feeding nationalist and religious extremism, triggering anger, inciting the masses and spreading negative publicity.

In that sense and within that role, the media and social media play a crucial and advanced part in rallying the masses, causing strife and division, inciting to fight and undermining peace and justice. 

Communications and the media can also play a constructive role by encouraging openness and closeness, by reinforcing the culture of dialogue, serving righteousness and justice, and allowing positive interaction between cultures, civilizations and religions, as well as establishing the rules and concepts of communal, societal and national behaviors, based on virtue, justice and peace.

The communications revolution took the world by storm and changed its course, political landscape, economic and social behavior, and had a significant impact on shaping and turning public opinion, writes Amal Abou Zeid, Adviser to the President of Lebanon, for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-communications-revolution-development/

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