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Social Media And Freedom Of Speech: What Are The Limits

Social media has dramatically changed the landscape of the media industry, leading to a shift in the way that people are exposed to their views.

(Search Engine Journal)

 

 

By Andrea Atzori

Traditional media has often been characterized by its inaccessible barriers to entry.

The costs associated with distributing content in major publications were, and still are, a prominent deterrent for parties looking to expose their messaging to a greater audience.

It was the industrialization of print media that afforded an opportunity to reach the masses at an unprecedented scale.

Though, it was the same innovative machinery that enabled companies to widely disseminate their publications, further restricting working-class demographics from propagating their views.


The Limitation Of Traditional Channels


In Power Without Responsibility, Curran and Seaton examine the history of British media. They found that fringe publications catering to a proletariat audience saw a steep decline in the mid-19th century, which persisted for many decades.

This can be attributed to the exorbitant financial capital required to leverage traditional media, which is reflected through historic trends about the value of newspaper enterprises.

In 1851, a New York City-based publication titled St. Louis Democrat was sold for $456,000; in 1920, similar localized publications were valued at $6 to $18 million.

As a result of this trend, the media of the last two centuries was largely influenced by a select few groups which had the sole means to exploit it.

This concentrated ownership of media channels saw a lack of diversity which was so critical that it could be likened to absolutism.

Throughout the 20th century, many nations found it necessary to enforce legislation that aimed to control the ownership of mass media. For example, Australia introduced the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

This did little to alleviate the issue, for as of 2011, 11 out of 12 major newspapers in Australia were owned by two publications.

It seemed as though that even nations which are governed by liberal democratic administrations were impervious to the limitations that major publications imposed on their freedom of speech.

This was until the conception of social media.


The Rise Of Social Media

It’s no secret that digital channels are growing exponentially more popular by the day while traditional media is on the decline.

This can be corroborated by statistics indicating that users now spend nearly double the amount of time engaging with digital channels compared to traditional media.

It is further exemplified by the fact that newspaper publications have had their revenue drop by over 50% in the last two decades.

A Search Engine Journal article written by Shelley Walsh, titled What Is Social Media? states that:

“As of 2021, 84% of the U.S. population uses at least one social media network. China alone has 1 billion social media users, and 4.65 billion people use social media worldwide. That’s 58.7% (more than half) of the global population.”

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Greg Tingle

SEJ's Andrea with possibly the greatest and most insightful article I've read on the social media industry in relation to freedom of speech, censorship, trends and such. As a former journalist I greatly appreciate the elements raised. In the current environment and state of the internet and world in general, people have a diverse view of what is true/real, what is authentic and what is false/fake etc. This can be based on ones faith, linked to the most banned (why is that?!) book in the world,. known as The Bible. Level of trust or mistrust in the business of politics, level of trust/mistrust in media - be it mainstream (FOX, CNN, SKY, Newsmax, Telegraph, NY Post etc), "alternative media" (Rubin Report perhaps and possibly London Real and Alex Jones). Then you have satire such as The Babylon Bee, and the you have the thought stimulating podcasters such as Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, Logan Paul, Jordan Peterson, Chris Jericho, RVD and so it goes on). It's a Pandora's Box! Stay true to self and you can't go too wrong..but unless you own the platform others may not agree!

 

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Social media companies generate revenue primarily from advertising, as shown in recent quarterly financial earnings reports from Twitter ($1.18 billion), YouTube Ads ($8.6 billion), and Meta ($32.2 billion).

Ad publishers charge advertisers based on the number of impressions, website visits, app installs, likes and retweets, video views, or new followers an ad campaign generates.

To ensure that advertisers reach ad campaign goals, a social network has to have a large audience with diverse interests.

That audience must spend a lot of time on the social network to help the ad publisher personalize each individual’s content and ads based on their interests.

Their interests are the elements that keep each user on the social network for the most time.

Elements include the people you follow, the people they follow, and every Tweet you engage with on Twitter.

 

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Thanks for the tip off. With Substacks ever increasing high profile status and well known hard hitting articles and posts, the liikes of which some newspapers haven't seen much of before, I'm somewhat surprised SS hasn't had more outages before. They've go to be a target by a few groups, but no finger pointing until solid proof! Most other big tech and online pubishing type establishements are getting their fair share of online attacks and o"outages" as we have come to know them, so the law of averages has kicked in. There's a few authors on SS that may have taken them into a high alert aka red alert type category. Hopelly they have a Plan A, B and C. There's going to be many SS writers who would be chopping at the bit to write about they think was the actual cause. Security remains of paramount importance for the digital landscape. Just another day in the Interneet Matrix Of Things. Can we say the Neo vs Agent Smith war continues.

 

 

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