Guidance for Those in Charge of Media and Communication

Question:
He says: I thank Your Eminence the Shaykh for these illuminating words, and I ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, not to deprive him of their reward. Honorable Shaykh, there is no doubt that the various media outlets and social media platforms have a significant impact in fueling division and extremism. Is there any guidance for those in charge of the various media outlets so that they may serve as a means of national, creedal, and legal unity, and reject division and extremism?

Answer:
There is no doubt that social media and these inventions are a double-edged sword; if used for good, they benefit, and if used for evil, they harm. It is obligatory that they not be left in the hands of those who play with them, in the hands of hypocrites, or in the hands of the enemies of Islam and Muslims. Muslims should exploit them. And they should respond to these people through their own media with the same kind of means they use. They should defeat them with their own weapons. This is the obligation. Yes.