Media has given political parties the tools to reach large numbers of people and can inform them on key issues ranging from policies to elections. In theory, media should be seen as an enabler for democracy, having better-educated voters would lead to a more legitimate government. However, critics such as Julian King has argued that those exact tools can easily be hijacked by malicious actors - both state and non-state - and in turn be used as a weapon against us. And in the past few years, media has become a direct threat to democracy. Two organisations of the Omidyar Group, Democracy Fund and Omidyar Network assembled to establish the relationship between media and democracy. Their initial findings presented six ways that social media was a direct threat to democracy.