NDM 38

Florida students have turned social media into a weapon for good

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/21/florida-students-have-turned-social-media-into-a-weapon-for-good

- The Guardian

The article talks about gun control and how young students are using the social media platform to raise their voices and stand up against what they believe is wrong. This talks about the recent shootings at American schools and how they are affecting childrens daily lives.

•  Going to school in a country with 88 guns for every 100 people is a matter of life and death
• Within hours of the Parkland shooting, Russian bot networks were seeding Twitter with misinformation and divisiveness
• the New York Times reported. YouTube’s search algorithm is promoting conspiracy mongering videos about students being “crisis actors”.
• The rightwing media is using social media to amplify attacks on schoolchildren.

I think this is interesting because it is showing the effects of social media and how it has allowed for people to share their opinions and have a voice. This shows the importance of pluralism and the fact that the youth have gone online and demanded for their opinions to be heard. The fact that this has generated some level of conversation has shown that this has been effective. However, the fact that the leaders of the countries are dismissing them as unimportant shows the effects of Marxism and how in the end the way the situation is handled will remain the same.