Social Media Is Killing Democracy

In recent years, Spain has become not only one of the fastest-growing economies and job creators in the West, but also one of the countries that has reduced inequality and greenhouse emissions the most.

We are becoming proof that social democracy truly works. That a nation can gain competitiveness, while also fostering social justice, protecting nature, and supporting a global order based on openness and multilateralism.

We have the results, the facts to show it, while those who defend the opposite model have nothing - just words and promises wrapped in radical measures that led us to chaos in the past, and will do so again if we don't act.

That's why I have decided to change the topic of my speech and talk to you about one of the main tools that is being used to sow this chaos: social media.

Back in the early 2000s, social media started to thrive under a promise. Their founders told us that they would unite people and strengthen our democracies with new ideas, with more pluralism, with extended accountability over the powerful.