Is Social Media the New Smoking?

We can no longer deny the significant dark side of social media

ben maynard
OneZero
Published in
4 min readMar 25, 2019

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TThe horrific events in New Zealand on March 15 have once again put social media, and Facebook in particular, under intense (and deserved) scrutiny. The mass shooter who killed 50 people was trying not only to inflict death and injury to as many as possible, but to achieve notoriety via social media by…

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ben maynard
OneZero

Transforming complex messages into powerful communications. Ben writes at the crossroads of tech, politics and society. www.storyandstrategy.co.uk