{"id":177814,"date":"2024-08-03T02:41:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T00:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-theofelus-urges-responsible-social-media-use\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T02:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T00:41:53","slug":"namibia-theofelus-urges-responsible-social-media-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-theofelus-urges-responsible-social-media-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Theofelus Urges Responsible Social Media Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus this week called for responsible social media use, stressing the crucial role that social media plays in communication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In a statement, Theofelus said during sensitive periods like election times, the impact of irresponsible social media use can be particularly damaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">While social media offers numerous benefits in promoting freedom of expression and facilitating communication, Theofelus noted that it is essential to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408020362.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus this week called for responsible social media use, stressing the crucial role that social media plays in communication. In a statement, Theofelus said during sensitive periods like election times, the impact of irresponsible social media use can be particularly damaging. While social media offers numerous benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4959,4706,724,257,15758,3577,254,35935,6810],"class_list":["post-177814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-media","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-responsible","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-theofelus","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}