Waqas Ejaz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mass Communication in the National University of Science and Technology (NUST). He can be reached at: waqas.ejaz@s3h.nust.edu.pk
Pakistan, which is the fifth most populous country in the world with a median age of 23 years and an increasing number of social media users, faces similar challenges of not just being the subject of vile disinformation campaigns through unabated platform manipulation
It is nearly impossible to find a single female journalist who would repudiate facing incivility and hate speech on social media. In fact, according...