Maria is a clear victim of Social media.We see her as a victim because if it wasn’t because of social media she wouldn’t have the life that she has had.Social media allowed her to be arrested because of misleading information.Not only did it affect her with the law but it affected her whole life in general.Social media is somewhere where a person can easily fall into depression,loneliness,stress and a huge one being low self esteem due.Social media creates social standards which can be very harmful for being making them think they have to be and look a certain way.Social media is very difficult to make seem negative but it’s hard to be positive as well.In other words social media is very controversial.We can clearly see that Maria wouldn’t be a huge fan of social media and we can’t blame her.Although social media is very popular it honestly shouldn’t be since of all the unneeded posts that are not beneficial to users of social media.Many ways in which social media has been negatively affected us is visible in the many crimes committed just on social media.The lies and many posts can be harmful which can be very difficult to control.Maria is more than a clear example why social media should be more controlled in a way.

Social media can be dangerous because it brings negative impact on society and around the world. Social media use is associated with a variety of issues including emotional and mental issues, including anxiety, depression, stress, loneliness, and low self-esteem, physical issues .For example, Maria was arrested several times for cyberlibel. She was arrested because of the conspiracy theories and misinformation that were being spread by social media against her and which jeopardize her career. Ressa was just staraightfoward and typical journalist. Also, Social Media made a baseless conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and Vaccine misinformation that were being spread by the unvaccinated people and which makes people hesitate to take the vaccine. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platform didn’t take action properly and they just want to let these conspiracy theory continue. Another example, when Trump made a false allegation and conspiracy theory about 2020 election that there was a widespread voter fraud and the election was RIGGED on Twitter. This conspiracy theories makes people believe it and which escalated to January 6th US Capitol Hill insurrection attack which was darkest day of US History. This is why social media is dangerous to the society.