Do you believe the government manipulates the social media?

[Jigga man]

The government has some control over the media in the form of regulations and the like but the media have to right to free speech too, and the government can't control each individual article or TV show.
The media is too huge an institution for the government to have any real control, especially if you include the internet as media, because that's almost totally user generated information. In reality it's the media that is manipulative, and the big media corporations express THEIR opinions, be they moral or political, and they have a much louder voice than any government.