How govts across the world use cyber troops to manipulate public opinion

Authoritarian regimes are not the only or even the best at organized social media manipulation

Social media's importance can be gauged by the fact that Facebook now has a market capitalisation of $ 472 billion and has more than 2 billion users on the platform. There is Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube which also have a large number of users sharing content and views, discussing, debating or just consuming content every morning. Globally, social media exercises the highest influence on public discourse. It is this function which makes it important for governments across the world to register their presence on social media. But do governments restrict themselves to only having a presence on social media