> what is the definition of social media? does that include messaging apps? Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter & Co It's not messaging apps, or HN or a pet

> what is the definition of social media? does that include messaging apps? Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter & Co It's not messaging apps, or HN or a pet forum. Yes some of the other apps/sites have similarities, but those similarities are not greater than the similarities between the Nike or Victoria Secret online shopping page for Brazilian bikinis and an adult site. If we can distinguish the latter than it's also possible for us to find an easy way to distinguish the former. > any places (countries) where this was instituted and worked out as you describe? Any places (countries) where this was instituted and it didn't work out as I described? > they don't? No, they don't. Whistleblowing has nothing to do with social media. You can already anonymously contact a journalist and leak information in a secure way, in fact using social media for whistleblowing would already be the dumbest way of doing it amongst all other ways of how someone could do it. > and what if you don't have access to a journalist....? If you don't have access to a telephone or the internet and email then I guess you board the next ship which will fly to Earth and visit an internet cafe.