{"id":1401,"date":"2026-10-26T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/macron-says-social-media-is-damaging-our-democracies\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:32:26","slug":"macron-says-social-media-is-damaging-our-democracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/macron-says-social-media-is-damaging-our-democracies\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron says \u2018social media is damaging our democracies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Macron-says-\u2018social-media-is-damaging-our-democracies.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"DENMARK-EU-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY-EPC\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Macron-says-\u2018social-media-is-damaging-our-democracies.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Emmanuel-Macron-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Emmanuel-Macron-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Emmanuel-Macron.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that social media was \u201cdamaging our democracies\u201d as France struggled to contain weeks of protests marked by street violence and looting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said on a visit to Marseille that social media was especially used during unrest on October 17 \u201cto bring young and not-so-young people to places where criminal acts, attacks and looting were taking place\u201d. He described social media as \u201ctools for mobilising the worst impulses\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/macron-says-social-media-is-damaging-our-democracies\/\">Macron says \u2018social media is damaging our democracies\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that social media was \u201cdamaging our democracies\u201d as France struggled to contain weeks of protests marked by street violence and looting. He said on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}