Nearly half of the world's population uses social media platforms, while billions of videos are shared daily on YouTube and Facebook.
These views were expressed by American Scholar Prof. Dr. Lee Arts while addressing an international media conference at Karachi University.
On this occasion, he said that the extent of social media can be estimated from the fact that half a million tweets are sent daily around the world. While 10 billion videos are shared daily on Facebook and 1 billion on YouTube.
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Dr. Lee Arts, citing the misuse of social media, said that the baseless news on this platform had set a country like Iraq on fire.
He further said that people all over the world are being misled by misleading and false news. Social media is at the forefront of spreading false and misleading information. Everyone has to work together for its prevention. Because the news on these platforms spreads very fast without confirmation. And this misleading information and lies are used as a political weapon.
The two-day international media conference titled 'Truth in Media and Current Trends' has been organized in collaboration with Karachi University, Sindh Higher Education Commission, Institute of Policy Studies and Greenwich University.
