{"id":84002,"date":"2023-07-21T05:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T05:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=84002"},"modified":"2023-07-21T05:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T05:44:27","slug":"social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=84002","title":{"rendered":"Social Media has taken humanity backwards \u2013 Wole Soyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has voiced deep concern about the detrimental impact of technology and social media, highlighting that they are now being controlled by individuals lacking knowledge. According to The Nation, Soyinka expressed these concerns during a speech at an event in Lagos on Friday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naijaexpress.com\/2023\/06\/17\/social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has voiced deep concern about the detrimental impact of technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka-300x159.png",300,159,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/84002-social-media-has-taken-humanity-backwards-wole-soyinka.png",588,312,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}