Nurturing Democracy - Part 3

How Governments Use Social Media

It’s essential to explain how this phenomenon on social media occurs and why it’s dangerous. Social media movements are inherently biased and not based on the complete picture of what’s happening. Social media memes such as #NoFakeMedicine sit back and agree with whatever is said by the French Order of Physicians, condemning those physicians who practice the so-called banned medical specialties. They use keywords like “charlatans, #fake medicine, no evidence-based studies” to support it, and more. An article in Le Figaro group all alternative and complementary medicines into one. For example, comparing homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, and mesotherapy is preposterous. Even worse, the rhetoric rolls down a hill like a snowball, gaining size and speed. Once the movement is so powerful, few question it, and those who do are dwarfed by the noise; worse, they are shadow-banned, canceled, and shouted down. The medical community acts as a tribe, erasing any individuality they once had.