It was further recommended that a national social media policy is enacted to safeguard privacy and security of online users. It was recommended that there must be human rights education on integrating the social media in human rights programming. Similarly, it was revealed that social media has helped people to freely express their views and opinions, contributed to increase human rights awareness, exposed injustice and decreased human rights violations. The study revealed among other things that, social media as a tool has been used to: infringe on the rights of people by way of invading their privacy circulated falsehood and comments tarnished peoples reputation and defrauded or blackmailed people. An exploratory design with both qualitative and quantitative approach was used to purposively and stratified randomly sampled the views and experiences of one hundred and sixty (160) participants including Victims of Social Media violations, Social Media Users and officials of CHRAJ and NCCE. The study explored how the social media both promote and violate human rights in Ghana, using Agona West Municipality as a case. Nonetheless, these tools in the same vein have the potential of violating the rights of others. These have the potential to expand the work of human rights by empowering the public to freely express their views and opinions and participate in decision making. New media technologies like social media platforms have emerged as an important tool in modern societies which people use to share their ideas, videos and photos to the larger online community.
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