Social media is countering negative propaganda of ruling classes but is also emerging as a tool in hands of hate-mongers
Scientific thinking, rational approaches, humanism, religious tolerance, diversity, democracy, freedom of speech, and gender equality were some of the most significant fruits of the Enlightenment movement that helped pull Europe out of barbarism, religious intolerance, patriarchy, irrationality and anti-scientific thinking.
Technology, especially the invention of the printing press, was one of the biggest contributing factors to this emancipation of the European people, who used this new tool of spreading information and educating people to break the shackles of mental slavery that had been imposed by European priests, feudal princes and other retrograde elements of Western society.
From : Geo News