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The global ubiquity of social media has undermined the integrity of territorial boundaries.

According to the social media giant, the past year has seen more than 11 million Tweets featuring the #MilkTeaAlliance hashtag.

The move exacerbates ongoing concerns about Internet freedom and its effects on the country's political dynamics ahead of elections in 2022 and 2023.

The January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob once again brings the role of social media in maintaining public security and safety to the foreground.

On the battlefields of social media, conflicts between citizens of China and South Korea are increasingly common.

"The Internet and social media’s arrival in the region have led to unprecedented levels of grassroots activism across societies."

Hoping to preserve their access to a lucrative market, Facebook and YouTube have been increasingly willing to censor "anti-state" content.

Thousands of recently-created Twitter accounts beamed out royalist hashtags intended to counter rising online mockery of the monarchy.

Given how central social media networks have become to political life in Southeast Asia, it is no surprise that the region's governments are trying to manipulate and control them.

Facebook’s failure to remove hate speech and disinformation during the 2018 riots resulted in spurring on the deadly violence.