Ethics and rules of engagement on social media

Thanks to Donald Trump, social media users in the U.S. are starting to feel the heat that Turkish users have been feeling for many years. The most powerful man in the U.S. and his team are using Twitter for smear campaigns along with disseminating "alternative facts."  Turkish authorities have been doing that for a long time and many of them run troll accounts. I would not be surprised if Trump had already looked into the feasibility of having hundreds of trolls like his Turkish peers. However, as Turkey, we are always one or more steps ahead of the U.S. in leveraging social media in unthinkable and non-ethical means. 
 
Yesterday I saw an advert on Facebook by Istanbul's Ümraniye Municipality. Through the paid advert I learned that the municipality was promoting a game for the "Yes" vote for the upcoming referendum on constitution amendments. In the online game you try to put in as many "Yes" votes as you can into the ballot in a given time. 

As soon as I saw this I got very angry because I could immediately see what was wrong with the whole thing. But, in Ümraniye, one of the biggest municipalities in Istanbul, there was no one who could stop this endeavor. So I decided to write about it. I hope that someone working at the municipality would read and react to my take on it. 

I believe that it is very unethical for a municipality to be engaged so directly in any type of a voting process. It is unethical because the municipality is founded by the taxes of the people who live within its borders or with the money given to the municipality from our state. Our state is in turn fully founded by all of its citizens. Therefore, when a municipality is engaged, it should do so for everyone. The funny thing about voting is that there will always be...