Sentence examples for it is abused from inspiring English sources
But there is plenty of evidence to show that social media can also be a powerfully damaging tool when it is abused.
Of Pakistan's wretched blasphemy law, which has been used to persecute religious minorities, he says it is "abused", but he declines to call it wrong in itself.
The more it is abused, the more people will come to regard it as at best arbitrary, and at worst corrupt".
"The National Security Law is interpreted too broadly, so it is abused to suppress the freedom of expression in the name of national security," Mr. Park said by phone after the ruling.
Like most decent South Africans, regardless of race or creed, I value freedom of expression, but take offence when it is abused to indulge in gratuitous indecency or the spreading of falsehoods.
"It's either pristine or it's abused.
Later, it was abused as a recreational drug.
But it was tainted for a time because it was abused".
The industry source observed: "The situation got distorted but that doesn't mean it was abused.
